Top 100 Seth Rogen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s not dying you need to be afraid of, it’s never having lived in the first place.”

— Seth Rogen

2. “Claiming that someone’s marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you’re on a diet.”

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3. “I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.”

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4. “It’s important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don’t stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.”

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5. “I’m a process server, so I have to wear a suit.”

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6. “Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I’ve learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.”

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7. “I honestly don’t love the Cheech and Chong movies, I’ve got to say.”

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8. “Shutting people down creatively often doesn’t get the best performance out of them.”

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9. “My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.”

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10. “I’m a complete coward in real life.”

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11. “As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.”

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12. “It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don’t know what to say, other than that they can expect me.”

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13. “I guess it’s a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.”

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14. “There is no such thing as a villain. It’s the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.”

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15. “I’m used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I’m comfortable at all with them.”

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16. “People constantly make pop-culture references. That’s why it’s called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.”

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17. “Please don’t wear skinny jeans if you don’t have skinny genes.”

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18. “I mean, where I come from, ‘communism’ is not a terrible word.”

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19. “I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.”

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20. “I don’t even have a stalker. I’m just not the guy that people stalk.”

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21. “In “Superbad,” I carry a gun, but I didn’t get to shoot it that much.”

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22. “All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars.”

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23. “It’s definitely not true what they say about women wanting a guy with a sense of humour. What women mean is that they want a guy with a sense of humour who is really handsome. If a girl had a choice between Brad Pitt or me, she’d pick Brad Pitt. And I’m a lot funnier than he is.”

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24. “I eat well, and I exercise.”

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25. “I know most people don’t like their jobs very much and don’t get a lot of personal satisfaction from their jobs. That’s something that I really do get a lot of.”

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26. “I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were “dramedies” because life is like that. It’s funny, it’s dramatic and to me that’s how I see it.”

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27. “Uh, stay fat people – That’s my motto. It’s no picnic!”

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28. “When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven’t moved one step forward since.”

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29. “I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.”

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30. “It’s always funny to find what people’s button is.”

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31. “To me it’s a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.”

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32. “In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.”

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33. “I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.”

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34. “For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!”

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35. “There was, like, a week straight of shooting, where, like, all I did was shoot a machine gun. And I hate to – every – it went against all my Jewish and Canadian instincts, but I enjoyed every second of it.”

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36. “I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.”

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37. “There’s just nothing funnier than, like, a guy awkwardly explaining to another guy that he’s hurt his feelings, and then later, awkwardly, you know, forgiving him for doing that.”

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38. “Most comedy comes out of misery.”

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39. “When we grew up in Vancouver our friends were – I don’t know if I’d say callous, but we had a very, you know, harsh relationship with one another; we’d constantly make fun of each other.”

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40. “I’ve never had something – like, you know, drunk people have tried to do that to me, and I instantly shut it off. I say, don’t to this, dude; you’ll feel terrible about this later. It’ll be – I’ll bring it up all the time; I’ll make fun of you. Just save yourself the embarrassment and don’t do it.”

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41. “People make fun of what I’m eating because they can tell I hate it. They know I am not happy eating healthy food. I look miserable – I look like I would rather be eating something else.”

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42. “I was always big. I was kind of around this size, like, since I went into high school. I played rugby and stuff like that. So, people, you know, would screw with me, but I never got into, like, a real fight or anything like that.”

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43. “I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that’s all I’d remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.”

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44. “Good comedy doesn’t have to be a comedy idea.”

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45. “If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.”

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46. “People don’t usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they’ve paid 12 bucks for it.”

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47. “Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, ‘I didn’t know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.’”

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48. “There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we’d hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we’d just end up hanging out together alone.”

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49. “The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He’s pretty amazing.”

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50. “Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that – you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what’s instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom’s a social worker, for God’s sakes.”

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