Top 100 Seth Rogen Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Seth Rogen

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

— Seth Rogen

53. “I grew up in Vancouver, man. That’s where more than half of my style comes from.”

— Seth Rogen

54. “To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.”

— Seth Rogen

55. “For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.”

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56. “I’ve never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I’d get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. Sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So, I’ve never had like a normal job.”

— Seth Rogen

57. “I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.”

— Seth Rogen

58. “If I were directing a movie, it would scare me.”

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59. “Every time I improvise I’m aware that I could be ruining what it is that we’re doing and we’ll just have to do it again.”

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60. “I’m intimidated anytime I work with someone who’s directly outside my very insulated group of friends.”

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61. “I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I’m always happy that we’re shooting out of order, so it’s kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn’t like a clear build in everyone finding their characters.”

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62. “After every single take, I laugh. It’s my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.”

— Seth Rogen

63. “It’s nice to win an award, I would assume. I’ve never won one, but I would imagine it’s great. I have no idea what I’ll do.”

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64. “When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was – I was well-versed.”

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65. “When I was a little kid, I used to say, “I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar.” To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig.”

— Seth Rogen

66. “Every once in a while you definitely have to film someone for half an hour saying something that you do not think is funny because for the previous two hours they said a bunch of stuff that you think is really funny.”

— Seth Rogen

67. “My characters come from a good place.”

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68. “I didn’t think I’d ever be an actor.”

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69. “Really, if I’m honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes – I’m a big comic-book fan.”

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70. “Steve Wozniak literally one of the sweetest guys. And that was kind of the thing I had to reconcile: how do I try to do this guy’s sweetness justice in some capacity when most of the things I’m doing in the movie are pretty confrontational, and pretty argumentative.”

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71. “We started when we’re around 13 writing it – maybe 14. I’m a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it.”

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72. “I mean, I love Comic-Con.”

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73. “I don’t make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I’m adding something to the cinematic community.”

— Seth Rogen

74. “You don’t have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.”

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75. “I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.”

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76. “I’ll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That’s all I need to know.”

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77. “Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don’t like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.”

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78. “A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.”

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79. “You want to create an environment where we’re fostering ideas, not rejecting them.”

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80. “I don’t weigh myself.”

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81. “If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won’t accept it.”

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82. “To me, always just – that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it’s at the most dramatic time possible.”

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83. “I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they’re under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.”

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84. “I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone’s spots.”

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85. “I’m the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.”

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86. “I don’t think all of my ideas are good. It’s almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.”

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87. “Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that’s more relevant?”

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88. “We did Kyokushinkaikan karate. Our motto was “Never give up. Always do your best.” A solid starting place in general.”

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89. “We just kind of wanted to play with these iconic moments of action. There’s a really small one that always makes me laugh really hard, where there’s a big shootout at the end, and the moment my gun runs out of bullets, I turn and there’s just another gun sitting there, and I’m, like, oh, nice.”

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90. “There’s something you can get away with when you know you’re only going to be on one season. There’s no sense of, “We should save that.” It’s just like, “Use that! Get it out there now. They could shut us down any second!””

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91. “We need shoes, sunblock, exercise, toilet paper – and weed.”

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92. “I’ve thought about starting a business where I sell prosthetic foreskins to Jews so they can feel what it would have been like to have non-Jew junk. It would be called Gentile Genitals and it would make a fortune.”

— Seth Rogen

93. “They also have an amazing seafood tower. I love a seafood tower and think more food should be served in tower formation. Sometimes pizzas get a little platform, but they’re really not living up to their potential.”

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94. “I don’t know who Mike Diana is!”

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95. “Whatever Disneyland is for kids who like cartoons is what Burning Man is to adults who like hallucinogens.”

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96. “In ’97, we were fifteen and our counselors were seventeen, which, again, is like entrusting a kitten to a ferret.”

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97. “Hey, just ’cause you write something doesn’t mean anyone has to see it or hear it. It still exists just as much as anything else does, which is pretty fleeting.”

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98. “There’s nothing more fun than reading a terrible review of your movie in USA Today on your phone as you walk into an interview with a journalist from USA Today.”

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99. “Once I ate a weed lollipop at the Golden Globes and got so high, I had to leave early.”

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100. “Bubby: All my friends are dying! The bastards! Don’t they know I want to play mah-jongg?!”

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