Quotes by Paul Feig

"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."

"'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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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!'"

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."