Judd Apatow Quotes

I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I love and care about are living with and struggling with.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Have you ever noticed that your ugliest friend is the most afraid of getting ruffied? It's like relax. YOU can take the coaster off your drink. There are at least three of us in line ahead of you.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.