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Paul Feig

(1962) Actor United States

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Paul Feig is an actor from the United States, best known for Guys Read: Funny Business.

Quick Facts About Paul Feig

Born: September 17, 1962
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Guys Read: Funny Business

About Paul Feig

Paul Feig is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing films such as Bridesmaids (2011), The Heat (2013), Spy (2015), Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), Last Christmas (2019), and The Housemaid (2025). He often collaborates with actress Melissa McCarthy.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Directors Guild of America Award

Quotes by Paul Feig

I really feed off of The Walking Dead

Feed

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Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.

Fashion

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The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again.

Cinema

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Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?

Busted

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Every director should take an acting class.

Acting

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At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do…

Add

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

Ego

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I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.

Freak

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The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood,’

Childhood

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

Happy ending

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I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

Comedian

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The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a…

Awards

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

Add

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As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who…

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I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection…

Bows

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The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer.…

Aging

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Yeah, you know, I like to throw myself on the sword so that others may feel better about themselves. I tell the…

About

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At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at…

Affected

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Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always…

Age

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I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that…

Allies

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Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there…

Ensemble

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Scripts are a house of cards and you can't just reach in the middle and pull out the middle card because the…

Fall

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You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff…

Capture

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Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're…

Acting

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The British model, which I've always thought was great, is that you do a TV show and then they sell it. Then…

Forever

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I think things go wrong when there's not a very specific plan and specific emotional roadmap. You need to know what a…

Emotional

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I really put my heart and soul into everything and I don't want a project that doesn't feel real to me or…

Ability

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Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping…

Add

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Internationally and in foreign markets, movies starring women don't make as much money as movies starring men. And then you can blame…

Attitude

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

Able

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We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

Comedy

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Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you…

Ghost

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The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of…

Achieve

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Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny…

Beats

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I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but…

Being honest

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People are like, "Why are you all dressed up? Did you dress up just for me?" I'm like "No, I dressed up…

Adults

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I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so…

Dare

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Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a…

Beats

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If you made a movie that no man in the world went near, but every woman in the world went to, you'd…

All time

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At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and…

Box office

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