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It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

Paul Reubens

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Paul Reubens
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 27
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Voice Actor
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New York City
New York
Paul Rubenfeld
Pee-wee Herman
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I'm going to try to do as many styles as I can. A salsa number, rock and roll, country.... I've talked to a million people about it. Obviously, I'd love Prince to do it. I'm sure he'll produce the whole album for me.
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You'd get on the plane and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds... and Francis Ford Coppola.
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I know you are, but what am I?
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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.
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I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.
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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.
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I have a deal with a company that's going to do cards without the gum. I don't like sugarless gum, and I don't think it's much better for you.
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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.
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The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik - a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn't know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.
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I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.
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I enjoy getting to be arty and quirky and weird and all the things that I don't have that much choice with. You just sort of use what you got.
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I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.
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I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!
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People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.
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I feel the only way I'm going to be successful in moving on is if I keep a separation.
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A large part of the reason I want to be so mysterious is so that I can move on and do something serious at some point in my career X years from now. It might be very difficult otherwise, because I'm... wild
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I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.
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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.
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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.
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There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.
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