Paul Rudd Quotes

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

It is true that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.