Top 40 Pauly Shore Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who’s an idiot, like myself, they’re fun. You either hate me or you love me.”

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2. “When I shot the movie, I wasn’t gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.”

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3. “There’s nothing wrong with being a pretty girl, because you want to be, desirable. There’s nothing wrong with that, but you should have a plan B even if that is getting pregnant by a rich dude.”

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4. “Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.”

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5. “People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. The reality is that my movies all have made money.”

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6. “I’m Jewish. I’ve always had a thing where it’s okay to dance with the devil, just don’t become the devil.”

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7. “Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.”

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8. “I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don’t want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?”

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9. “I’m not used to getting good reviews.”

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10. “I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.”

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11. “You’d think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn’t.”

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12. “Comedy wasn’t something I chose – it chose me.”

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13. “I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that’s why my act works: I’m like this normal guy.”

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14. “Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.”

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15. “Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They’re less jaded and they’re more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don’t care as much.”

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16. “My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that’s where I started, that’s where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.”

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17. “My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.”

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18. “I want to have my face look like Brad Pitt. Then I’ll be with Jennifer Aniston and then Angelina Jolie. Then the real Brad Pitt will come in, and we’ll have a Brad Pitt face-off.”

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19. “Death isn’t a funny thing. We’re all lucky to be living.”

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20. “It’s in my blood to tour. It’s in my blood to get on the road. It’s in my blood to go onstage.”

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21. “My life’s like a big tour. It’s cool, I’m still semi-young. I’m not too old yet where it’s like, “I hate the road!” As long as I’m not anywhere for too long. I like to keep moving.”

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22. “That’s the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don’t spend your own money.”

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23. “I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.”

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24. “Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it’s hard, man. They brainwash you to think you’re doing the right thing.”

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25. “Find something that you want to do when you’re 60. Find your passion. Your passion, your work, whatever it is that you want to do. Find something that you would do, even if you didn’t get paid. Whether it’s an art or whether is something that you’re passionate about.”

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26. “I become friends with people in each city who can show me around. Like if someone came to Los Angeles they wouldn’t really know where to go, so they’d have to call me up and then I’d show them around.”

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27. “When you’re a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that’s what I did.”

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28. “The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.”

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29. “I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.”

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30. “My mom is two people to me. She’s my mom number one, and then she’s this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that’s responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.”

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31. “The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.”

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32. “You have to go away to come back. That’s just normal. That’s with bands, actors, comedians, everything.”

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33. “All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that’s why I think we’re good. That’s why we’re on top of the game now because we were born in it.”

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34. “My belief is guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

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35. “People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops and shorts and just kind of already have a buzz on.”

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36. “America’s Most Wanted? I love it when there’s a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.”

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37. “Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that’s Hollywood.”

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38. “I really don’t go out every night to red-carpet events.”

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39. “I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you’ll see where I got a lot of my stuff.”

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40. “I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.”

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41. “I never got into The Jetsons too much.”

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42. “I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?”

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43. “I giggle when I put myself down. It’s just funny to me.”

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44. “I’m definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s – that’s for sure.”

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45. “I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.”

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46. “I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that’s what was unique about MTV at that time.”

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47. “There’s a lot of people out there who didn’t like my style of comedy.”

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48. “I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.”

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49. “Everywhere I go, people know who I am.”

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