Explore Quotes by Pauly Shore

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.

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.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.

In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.

'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

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.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

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

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.

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

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

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