Seth Rogen Quotes & Sayings

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin. — Seth Rogen

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same. — Seth Rogen

For me and my wife ... the easiest part of my life is my marriage. Like if everything was as smooth and easy and fun as my relationship with my wife then I would have a much easier time getting through the day. We really get along and we like the same stuff. — Seth Rogen

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. I felt I could do it, so why not? — Seth Rogen

I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order, so it's kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn't like a clear build in everyone finding their characters. — Seth Rogen

To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible. — Seth Rogen

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word. — Seth Rogen

When I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig. — Seth Rogen

I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality. — Seth Rogen

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan. — Seth Rogen

I'm very curious in regards to "The Hateful Eight" specifically about the blocking of the movie. Because in comedies, we don't block. We basically like have to position the actors' bodies in the way that is most conducive to filming both of them simultaneously. — Seth Rogen

There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we'd hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we'd just end up hanging out together alone. — Seth Rogen

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job. — Seth Rogen

It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments. — Seth Rogen

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them. — Seth Rogen

Steve Wozniak admittedly would never like say the things he said to Steve Jobs [in the movie] in the context that he said them. — Seth Rogen

It's definitely not true what they say about women wanting a guy with a sense of humour. What women mean is that they want a guy with a sense of humour who is really handsome. If a girl had a choice between Brad Pitt or me, she'd pick Brad Pitt. And I'm a lot funnier than he is. — Seth Rogen

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

It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team. — Seth Rogen

To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief ... — Seth Rogen

You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight. — Seth Rogen

Steve Wozniak literally one of the sweetest guys. And that was kind of the thing I had to reconcile: how do I try to do this guy's sweetness justice in some capacity when most of the things I'm doing in the movie are pretty confrontational, and pretty argumentative. — Seth Rogen

I don't even have a stalker. I'm just not the guy that people stalk. — Seth Rogen

Most comedy comes out of misery. — Seth Rogen

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue. — Seth Rogen

I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say. — Seth Rogen

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible. — Seth Rogen

I don't weigh myself. — Seth Rogen

The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you. — Seth Rogen

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me. — Seth Rogen

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place. — Seth Rogen

If I were directing a movie, it would scare me. — Seth Rogen

One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you're driving after it's been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that's - I can't count how many movies I've seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck. — Seth Rogen

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be. — Seth Rogen

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them. — Seth Rogen

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. — Seth Rogen

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. — Seth Rogen

All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars. — Seth Rogen

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal. — Seth Rogen

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed. — Seth Rogen

People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney. — Seth Rogen

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing. — Seth Rogen

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control. — Seth Rogen

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea. — Seth Rogen

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old. — Seth Rogen

I'll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That's all I need to know. — Seth Rogen

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life. — Seth Rogen

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me. — Seth Rogen

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

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world. — Seth Rogen

I'd moved to L.A., and everyone's actors here and writers, they were like super emotional and super in touch with their feelings, and it seemed like every two weeks one of my friend just coming to me and, like, you hurt my feelings the other day, dude. — Seth Rogen

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie. — Seth Rogen

It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me. — Seth Rogen

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard. — Seth Rogen

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try. — Seth Rogen

I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit. — Seth Rogen

My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations. — Seth Rogen

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from. — Seth Rogen

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

You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it. — Seth Rogen

I'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general. — Seth Rogen

When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since. — Seth Rogen

I love cold weather. — Seth Rogen

We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it. — Seth Rogen

I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through. — Seth Rogen

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent. — Seth Rogen

I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing. — Seth Rogen

Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.' — Seth Rogen

We live in a world where in the movie you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't show people having sex. I think it's weird. — Seth Rogen

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet. — Seth Rogen

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them. — Seth Rogen

I first did standup at a lesbian bar. I didn't know it was a lesbian bar at the time, but the lesbians loved me. I was huge among the lesbians and am to this day. I'm thrilled with the lesbian support. — Seth Rogen

People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it. — Seth Rogen

In "Superbad," I carry a gun, but I didn't get to shoot it that much. — Seth Rogen

It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of. — Seth Rogen

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry ... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was. — Seth Rogen

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community. — Seth Rogen

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class. — Seth Rogen

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great. — Seth Rogen

I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. Sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So, I've never had like a normal job. — Seth Rogen

I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living the weekend it comes out guys. I'm not Jon Bon Jovi. I go to the Arclight, like a regular asshole. — Seth Rogen

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies. — Seth Rogen

My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her. — Seth Rogen

It's just kind of seemed like a funny way to explore action movies, I guess. I mean, I'm a big fan of them always. It's always people who are very equipped to deal with the situations that they're thrown in. So, the notion just seemed funny, because it's, like, basically stoners are kind of the last guys in the world who are equipped to deal with that. And the humor possibilities just seemed somewhat endless. — Seth Rogen

I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends. — Seth Rogen

There was, like, a week straight of shooting, where, like, all I did was shoot a machine gun. And I hate to - every - it went against all my Jewish and Canadian instincts, but I enjoyed every second of it. — Seth Rogen

It's much more painful to bomb in front of a group of yours peers than it is to not win. Tons of assholes ain't winning awards, but only one guy will be bombing. So, that's much more nerve-wracking. — Seth Rogen

It's always funny to find what people's button is. — Seth Rogen

I read the script [ of 'Steve Jobs' movie ], and it was very, very good. I wasn't sure they would want me to be in the movie, but I auditioned for it. Which I hadn't done in a few years. But I had auditioned in the previous few years for another movie that I did not get the part. And so my track record wasn't good. But I really wanted to audition because I was worried that I was going to blow it, and I wanted it to be on them for choosing me. — Seth Rogen

My characters come from a good place. — Seth Rogen

I eat well, and I exercise. — Seth Rogen

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor. — Seth Rogen

I think I was just so ecstatic that I was working, and then as it went on, you know, I started to really appreciate that it was good [show "Freaks and Geeks" ] and that we were doing something a little different and that, you know, everyone was really cool to work with and that it was really talented group of people, and it was just when I was realizing that, that it got canceled. — Seth Rogen

I'm a complete coward in real life. — Seth Rogen

Just always be extremely respectful, was something that was drilled into me, which I think probably prevented me from having sex for a good seven years longer than it should have. — Seth Rogen

I did meet Steve Wozniak on several occasions leading up to the filming of the movie [Steve Jobs]. It wasn't really written how he is. So the second I met him, it almost was a relief, because I was like, "OK, good, the real Steve Wozniak is like one of the least confrontational people you would ever meet in your entire life." — Seth Rogen

To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does. — Seth Rogen

I'm so good at procrastinating. — Seth Rogen

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge. — Seth Rogen

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor. — Seth Rogen