Did you know that Seth Rogen was born in Canada and raised in Vancouver? In fact, up until he was sixteen, he had never even traveled outside of North America! Surprisingly, though, this doesn’t seem to have hampered his career one bit. In fact, Rogen has become one of the most successful actors and comedians in Hollywood today. What is his secret? Keep reading to find out more about Seth Rogen’s life and career.
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Occupation: Actor, Comedian, Writer, Producer, Director And More.
Years Active: 1999-Present
SETH ROGEN QUOTES ON BEING FUNNY
For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard. โ Seth Rogen
It’s always funny to find what people’s button is. โ Seth Rogen
As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted. โ Seth Rogen
I’m actually way more funny now, because I’m hungry… If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was. โ Seth Rogen
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. โ Seth Rogen
If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It’s also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people. โ Seth Rogen
I mean, I love ComicโCon. โ Seth Rogen
SETH ROGEN QUOTES REGARDING WORK
A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it. โ Seth Rogen
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. โ Seth Rogen
It’s like a recipe that will be delicious forever, it just works, the lion king. โ Seth Rogen
Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I’ve learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18โyearโold. โ Seth Rogen
I’m intimidated anytime I work with someone who’s directly outside my very insulated group of friends. โ Seth Rogen
I’m not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they’re nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them. โ Seth Rogen
I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same. โ Seth Rogen
Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well. โ Seth Rogen
My mom’s a social worker, and my dad works in nonโprofit organisations. โ Seth Rogen
The head explosion can’t be more obscured than it is because we honestly feel that if it’s any more obscured, you won’t be able to tell it’s exploding and The joke won’t work. โ Seth Rogen
With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don’t realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie. โ Seth Rogen
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. โ Seth Rogen
Life, as I see it, is Rโrated. โ Seth Rogen
SETH ROGEN QUOTES ON COMEDY
Good comedy doesn’t have to be a comedy idea. โ Seth Rogen
Most comedy comes out of misery. โ Seth Rogen
I hadn’t really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks. โ Seth Rogen
It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team. โ Seth Rogen
In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as handโtoโhand together as anything else in the world. โ Seth Rogen
I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn’t necessarily funny. โ Seth Rogen
The good thing about L.A. is that there’s always someone more famous 100 yards away from me. โ Seth Rogen
It was really fun [on set of the Pineapple Express]. I mean, how could I not have fun? It was exactly what you think it would be. โ Seth Rogen
SETH ROGEN QUOTES ABOUT ACTORS
I didn’t think I’d ever be an actor. โ Seth Rogen
I’m not entirely comfortable saying I’m an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. โ Seth Rogen
After every single take, I laugh. It’s my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor. โ Seth Rogen
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. โ Seth Rogen
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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. โ Seth Rogen
SETH ROGEN QUOTES ON MOVIES
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies. โ Seth Rogen
I honestly don’t love the Cheech and Chong movies, I’ve got to say. โ Seth Rogen
Steve Wozniak admittedly would never like say the things he said to Steve Jobs [in the movie] in the context that he said them. โ Seth Rogen
Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible. โ Seth Rogen
I watched ] Spicoli in Fast Times, which isn’t exactly a stoner movie, or The Big Lebowski, which I think is more than a stoner movie or Brad Pitt in True Romance. โ Seth Rogen
I’m the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing. โ Seth Rogen
If I were directing a movie, it would scare me. โ Seth Rogen
My grandfather was a veteran, My comment about the movie was not meant to have any political implications. โ Seth Rogen
To me it’s a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does. โ Seth Rogen
This is now a story of americans changing their movie to make north koreans happy. โ Seth Rogen
To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal. โ Seth Rogen
You don’t have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it. โ Seth Rogen
Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that’s more relevant? โ Seth Rogen
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. โ Seth Rogen
We live in a world where in the movie you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can’t show people having sex. I think it’s weird. โ Seth Rogen
People don’t usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they’ve paid 12 bucks for it. โ Seth Rogen
I watched a lot of pot movies before we did this [Pineapple Express]. My favorites were always the characters in movies that weren’t necessarily in stoner movies. โ Seth Rogen
I’ve seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it. โ Seth Rogen
We kind of have some ideas for sequels. The movie [Sausage Party] ends in a way that implies a next chapter. โ Seth Rogen
We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We’re big fans of like Shane Black movies, when we were youngerโme and Evan [Goldberg]. โ Seth Rogen
The original idea [ of the Pineapple Express] came from Judd [Apatow] actually. He just kind of had the loose notion of like, ‘What about a weed action movie?’. โ Seth Rogen
I hadn’t done a comedy for a while. I had directed a very low budget movie called The Ape and it was playing at a festival in Austin. Judd [Apatow] was there and he came and saw it and it’s kind of funny. โ Seth Rogen
I liked actions movies. JeanโClaude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life. โ Seth Rogen