I think communication is so firsbern.
Teaching is a form of show business.
I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, ‘I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that’s the difference between him and me.’
Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.
The course was more plodding than heroic. I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.
As a school board we felt it’s an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it – if you have free public education, you can’t put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head.
The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.
I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
When you’re reaching for a star, there’s a long way to fall.
Comedians don’t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can’t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.
There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they’ll talk back to you.
In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I’d meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I’d wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.
I’m for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said “Be so good that they can’t ignore you.” She thought I was being flip but it’s true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.
It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
You know when you’re telling these little stories? Here’s a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!