Paul Rudd Quotes

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

It's boring to be a poser.

I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie it was like NASCAR for potheads.

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.