Paul Rust Quotes

'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

Fashion is OK for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of the life.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

No one can pronounce my name. My name is 'The Black Guy From 40-Year-Old Virgin'.

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.

We had brilliant writers on our shows, and I do think that 'The Two Ronnies' has stood the test of time. It was certainly the greatest fun to do.

Every group has its time. Nobody reigns forever, except Michael Jackson. So, you've gotta be ready for that - and be wise about what you're doing.

It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

Long as the Earth is here, hip-hop'll be here.