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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
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Paul Rubenfeld
Pee-wee Herman
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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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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 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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I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.
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I'm fortunately not in a situation where someone owns me.
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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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There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.
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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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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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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'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which I think is a cool jump of faith for them. Or proof that they're really stupid. But I don't think so.
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I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.
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I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.
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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 know you are, but what am I?
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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'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 usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not. I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.
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It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.
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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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