Quotes from Paul Reubens

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

I feel the only way I'm going to be successful in moving on is if I keep a separation.

The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn't quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.

I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.

Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.

I was Pee-wee Herman for so many years that it wasn't really a question that I didn't want to do other things.

I would love to be in Kansas.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.