Quotes by Paul Feig

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

— Paul Feig

Love

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!'

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.

— Paul Feig

Friendship

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.

— Paul Feig

Success

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

— Paul Feig

Truth

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

— Paul Feig

Life

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

— Paul Feig

Happiness

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

— Paul Feig

Wisdom