After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor. Seth Rogen More Quotes by Seth Rogen More Quotes From Seth Rogen The scene with Danny [McBride] and the cake and all of that [in the Pineapple Express], most of that is improvised, I would say. But you would never know, to me anyway, and that's what is always amazing. Seth Rogen pineapplescakescene In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world. Seth Rogen sickbrainhands As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted. Seth Rogen i-realizedwantedjobs The biggest challenge [making Pineapple Express] was that we had a comedy budget. We really got excited the more we got into the development of it about blowing stuff up and having shoot outs. That stuff costs money. Seth Rogen pineapplescostchallenges I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin. Seth Rogen mitzvahbarsclass Alzheimer's is a family disease...It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers...Wi thout professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself. Seth Rogen alzheimersjobskids Basically, we [me and Evan Goldberg] started thinking about making a movie that was kind of a weed movie and action movie and had a real kind of friendship story to it, then that would be our favorite movie [Pineapple Express] ever. Seth Rogen weedrealthinking I remember thinking as I was doing the jokes for the first time, "If I can hear that very clearly, I'm not hearing laughter." It just became deafening, this buzzing noise. I mean, it was brutal. It was really terrible. Then I remember thinking, "At least nobody important, or anyone who I really respect, saw that." And then literally right when I went off the stage, Jerry Seinfeld got up and went on. So I was like, "Oh great. Seinfeld saw me bomb." On the other hand, I thought, "At least no one will be thinking of me anymore. They'll just be focusing on him." Seth Rogen laughtermeanthinking Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again. Seth Rogen For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard. Seth Rogen realnaturaltrying There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same. Seth Rogen villain There's just nothing funnier than, like, a guy awkwardly explaining to another guy that he's hurt his feelings, and then later, awkwardly, you know, forgiving him for doing that. Seth Rogen guyhurtfeelings Vegans are murderers, just like everyone else. Seth Rogen veganmurderer I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends. Seth Rogen intimidatedgroup-of-friendsgroups I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks. Seth Rogen apescomedydone People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly. Seth Rogen popsculturepeople Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them. Seth Rogen best-performanceperformancespeople It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do. Seth Rogen awardsnicewinning If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people. Seth Rogen heroideasthinking I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. Seth Rogen realhomewriting
