Rogen Quotes & Sayings

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted. — Seth Rogen

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

There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen. — Will Ferrell

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

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'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with. — Randall Park

If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won't accept it. — 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

Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un. — Conan O'Brien

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

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor. — 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

I was always big. I was kind of around this size, like, since I went into high school. I played rugby and stuff like that. So, people, you know, would screw with me, but I never got into, like, a real fight or anything like that. — 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

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature. — Seth Rogen

John Boehner is a member of a country club in Ohio. It turns out that the bartender was plotting to poison Boehner. Now wait a minute. Isn't that the movie with Seth Rogen and James Franco? — David Letterman

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

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

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

You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different. — 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

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

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

I'm so good at procrastinating. — Seth Rogen

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

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks. — Seth Rogen

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

Gluten is just a term for things that are bad for you. Like calories or fat, that's all gluten." - Seth Rogen — David Sax

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

I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.' — 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

President Obama's trying to work out a nuclear deal with Iran, and the Republicans are steamed. They got together and sent Iran a letter about the nuclear deal. They said if this doesn't work, by God, they're going to send Seth Rogen and James Franco. — David Letterman

Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them. — Seth Rogen

For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it you almost decide to do the whole movie off a line or two. You almost do it for the fun of getting to say a line or two like that. I don't have any specific plans, you know. I mean, if Seth Rogen calls with a great buddy pic, I'll be there. — Edward Norton

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 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

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

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

My characters come from a good place. — Seth Rogen

I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.' — Adam DeVine

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

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

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in. — Hannibal Buress

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

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

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better. — Adam McKay

I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though. — Seth Rogen

Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that's more relevant? — 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 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

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

I had a very specific type of terrible network experience where I was told that people like Seth Rogen and Jason Segel weren't leads, so it truly drove me mad. So to be trusted is all I value. — Judd Apatow

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

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it. — Seth Rogen

I eat well, and I exercise. — Seth Rogen

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

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

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

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

I mean, I love Comic-Con. — Seth Rogen

Americans whisper the word Alzheimer's because their government whispers the word Alzheimer's. And although a whisper is better than the silence that the Alzheimer's community has been facing for decades, it's still not enough. It needs to be yelled and screamed to the point that it finally gets the attention and the funding that it deserves and needs. — Seth Rogen

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy ... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama. — Phoebe Tonkin

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

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

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

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

Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes. — Seth Rogen

There is a certain security in having a great supporting cast. — Seth Rogen

I love cold weather. — 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

We just kind of wanted to play with these iconic moments of action. There's a really small one that always makes me laugh really hard, where there's a big shootout at the end, and the moment my gun runs out of bullets, I turn and there's just another gun sitting there, and I'm, like, oh, nice. — 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

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

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.' — Seth Rogen

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

I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger. — 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 think there's this new kind of character; it's a sidekick-slash-leading man role. People like Zach Galifianakis and Seth Rogen have been really successful in those roles. You don't have to be this square-jawed, chiseled, deep-voiced Superman; you can be funny and normal and put in the leading man category. — Tyler Labine