Quotes from Paul Walter Hauser

We lost Chris Farley, John Belushi, James Gandolfini, and we need heavier-set people to represent the real world.

I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

The recurring theme for me internally is, 'I was content with what I was doing until something way better just showed up.'

I've had a lot of creative license; I improvise quite a bit. There's a lot I like to do that satiates my creativity, but at the end of the day, I just want to make the guy or gal happy who's directing the movie.

I have to imagine playing Cruella de Vil in a giant Disney movie is probably a little scary.

A Few Good Men' and 'As Good As It Gets' were the advent of me taking film seriously.

In my daily life, I'm always struggling to be a better adult, to come to terms with reality. To show up on set for five or six hours and be completely out of touch with reality, or a piece of it, is fun in some sick way that I'm sure a therapist would have a lot of fun deconstructing.

The WWE definitely needs to reinvent itself if it wants to survive.

My go to - if I were on a desert island and there was one thing I could eat forever - I am obsessed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Obsessed.

I was an extra in a movie called 'Demoted' starring Sean Astin and Michael Vartan. The movie was a real atrocity, but it was fun to be paid to be on a film set, and I remember Michael Vartan bought everybody ice cream.

Everyone is the dude or woman for the moment they're in sometimes. And that's why I believe in fate and believe in God. I think there are things that are out of your circumstances. There are other forces, and you have to either relent and accept, dive in and immerse, or you can fight against it and probably be more aggravated than is necessary.

That is why Chris Jericho is so impressive because he keeps reinventing himself.

I guaran-damn-tee you, unless God swipes me from the earth because that's his call anyway, I will be wrestling in a celebrity wrestling match someday, and it will not be forgettable because if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it, I'm not just going to do it. I'd rather not do it poorly.

You have to call out injustice and not let tribalism win over.

We like to think that because we have a black president that thinks are better and racism doesn't exist. That's insane.

Journalism is a fascinating job, you get to study people, you have a great responsibility, and it never grows old. I love the profession, I admire people that do it. But like with any story if there's an isolated incident of wrongdoing, you have to shed light on it, to not shed light on it would be tribalism.

I think 'Cruella' was getting a weird comparison to 'Joker,' saying we're trying to be like that, but we're not at all.

I get a call when I'm in Thailand at 3 A.M. from my rep saying, 'Clint Eastwood wants you to star in his new movie,' and I said, 'You guys are hilarious. What, does Jesse Plemons have the measles? What the hell's going on?' It was a total shock, but obviously we were all aggressively elated that this was a real thing.

I always wanted to be that funny young guy who people were like, 'This is the next Belushi or Farley.'

People who are stone-cold immovably delusional are probably people that didn't have great relationships and feel slighted.

I wanted to do a Chris Farley movie where he's in rehab for half of the film, and for the other half of the movie, he's doing his 'SNL' stuff and his movies.

I am very flexible and can kick over my head.

I felt like 'Kingdom' was earning my bachelor's degree in acting, and then 'I, Tonya,' 'BlacKkKlansman,' and 'Richard Jewell' feel like I'm working my way toward finishing my master's.

There's no trophy that will amount to someone trusting you with a sizable portion of their movie, and that's pretty cool.