Paul Rudd Net Worth

Paul Rudd's Quotes

• Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People say, "You must love the instant feedback," and we're all attention whores for sure - that's why we choose this profession. But it goes beyond that: There's something magical about a shared experience in a theater, with actors and an audience. I don't know if the audience members realize just how huge a part they play in a production. How they are determines how we are, and when it all works, it's magical.
• There's a feeling of enrichment and challenge when it comes to doing a play, and especially doing, you know, a classical play or a tragic play. In a way, it works a different set of muscles, I guess. But I do love it, and I love great writing, whatever it is, and there are so many great plays, and a lot of the writing in a lot of plays is just stellar, and no one is making movies like that, or if they are, I'm certainly not getting cast in them. But you know, working on a comedy with your friends. Like, I would say that with Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) and The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Wet Hot American Summer (2001), I was working with people who are completely inspiring. I love being around that company, and I try and step up to the level of their game.
• I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.
• When I was doing The Shape of Things (2003), which we'd done as a play, it was just so tired by the time we rolled tape.
• I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Interesting Facts about Paul Rudd

1. 1998: Began filming on a movie called "Chicken Blood and Other Tales", but production was canceled before it wrapped.
2. Was disappointed by the final result of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) because filming had him believing it was going to be a high-caliber suspense film, but the reaction to the film was overwhelmingly negative.
3. Was classmates with Matthew Lillard at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
4. Was a disc jockey at Bar Mitzvahs before his career became successful.
5. 2/23/03: Married his fiancee, Julie Rudd in upstate New York. They live in Manhattan. As of 2020, they have been together for 25 years.
6. Prior to joining the cast of Friends (1994), he co-starred with Jennifer Aniston in The Object of My Affection (1998).
7. Attended the University of Kansas. Is a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
8. His parents were both born in England. His father was from Edgware and his mother was raised in Surbiton, both in London. Both of his parents' families were Jewish (they moved from Poland, Belarus, and Russia to England). Paul's paternal grandfather, born Davis Rudnitsky, had anglicized his family's surname from "Rudnitzky" to "Rudd", while Paul's maternal grandfather, born Louis Goldstein, anglicized his family's surname to "Granville". Paul was raised in Reform Judaism, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
9. He is a self-described "mega-fan" of the television series Lost (2004). He volunteered to interview cast member Emilie de Ravin, whom he has never met, for Interview magazine because of his love for the series.
10. Has two children with Julie Rudd: Jack Rudd (born 2006) and daughter Darby Rudd (born 2010).
11. Friends with television writer Rob Thomas and Jon Hamm.
12. He spray painted his name on Shawnee Mission West High School's stage wall. Another ex-Shawnee Mission West student was Jason Sudeikis.
13. Came up with the idea of the "Kelly Clarkson!" call-out during Steve Carell's infamous chest wax in The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005).
14. As part of a running gag during his appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993), Rudd often brought a clip from the film Mac and Me (1988) where wheelchair user Eric (Jade Calegory) flies off a cliff while Mac watches on, instead of showing clips from the actual movie he is there to promote. The only exception was when he came to promote Knocked Up (2007). Judd Apatow showed up specifically to make sure Rudd would not do so.
15. Improvised the "You know how I know you're gay?" sequence in The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) with Seth Rogen.
16. While on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show (2009), Rudd told Kevin Pollak that when Rudd was a freshman theater student at the University of Kansas, he appeared in a highly experimental production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in which there were two different actors playing a "good" Macbeth and a "bad" Macbeth; Rudd played the "good" Macbeth. Many years later, while he was auditioning to appear in the original production of "Bash: Latter-Day Plays", he learned that the play's author, Neil LaBute, had seen that "Macbeth" while LaBute was a graduate student at KU; Rudd was worried that LaBute would make the connection between Rudd and that "Macbeth" and would no longer want him to be in the play. They later became friends and frequent collaborators.
17. Was billed under his full name, "Paul Stephen Rudd", in his early roles, as there was already an actor in the Screen Actors Guild who took the name "Paul Rudd".
18. Is an avid fan of the Kansas City Royals. Threw out the first pitch before a game with the cross-state rival St. Louis Cardinals on June 22, 2012.
19. (January 16, 2009) Attended the premiere of Role Models (2008) at the Pathe De Munt Cinema in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
20. (April 8, 2009) Attended the VIP screening of I Love You, Man (2009) at the Soho Hotel in London, England.