Quotes by Paul Feig

About Paul Feig:

Paul Samuel Feig is an American director, actor and author. He is best known for directing the 2011 film Bridesmaids, featuring Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. Feig also directed the comedy films The Heat (2013) starring McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, and Spy (2015) which stars McCarthy, Jason Statham, and Jude Law.
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Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. W...

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The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything i...

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Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

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My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

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The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen...

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In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

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Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around...

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'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semant...

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You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

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Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

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What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anythi...

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Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think is a little better - but not put you down or just perplex you in the process.

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'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. T...

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The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

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With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

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At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

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A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

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I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

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When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

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I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Feig
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, writer, film director
  • BornSeptember 17, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter
  • AwardsDirectors Guild Of America Award