Quotes from Seth Rogen

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.

I think around that time I met David [Gordon Green] or, well, we all met at Superbad and Judd [Apatow] said, 'I'm thinking about having him direct [ Knocked Up].' Sounded like a good idea.

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.

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.

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

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

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

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.

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

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.

This s - t [smoked on scenes] called Wizard Smoke. I didn't like it. [James] Franco didn't have that hard of a time with it. Franco will smoke anything.

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.

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

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.

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

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.

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