All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.
America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.
Anytime someone in this business is very much out there and then they're not out there? Immediately people think something bad happened.
Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
Hot gets the sub, and cold goes with the grinder.
I am a guy that people relate to, and that's the weasel character.
I couldn't get the right people I wanted to represent me.
I grew up I the business and know that careers went up or down. I didn't think I did anything wrong.
I had an unbelievable run. I starred in like six movies.
I just kind of learned along the way. When I came at it with that attitude, everything started falling into place.
I kind of milked the character and the movie format for awhile. I want to take a step back and prove to myself that I can do other things and just be funny.
I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.
I kinda slowed down and went away for a while.
I like the new U2. I also like Joe Walsh. I like all types of stuff.
I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.
I never got into The Jetsons too much.
I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.
I started crying naked in the bathtub, I thought Burns was passing me the comedy baton.
I was going to marry Britney, but she pulled out at the last minute.
I was in an office to do studio movies. I thought at the time that the projects were right, but then you look back and what I did at the time was create something that was bigger than life.
I was lucky enough that the people that I pitched, the celebrities, they got the joke. They thought it was funny, and they loved the fact that I'm paying for it.
I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
I was the butt of jokes. You'd watch Letterman and different shows, and critics would always make jabs.
I was used to people dissing me.
I'm in a taxi with a whole bunch of people. They're molesting me.
I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.
I'm lost in New York. I gotta get out of the cab.
I'm not used to getting good reviews.
I've been playing Sacramento for a long time. And every time I played up there it's been really good for me.
If I did become my character, I'd probably be homeless right now.
In the Army Now... every comedian does an army movie.
It was inherent and in the air what I was feeling; not being the hot guy anymore.
It was Sam Kinison. I brought him back from the dead.
It's called Pauly Shore is Dead. I wrote it and directed it. I've been working on it for about four years.
It's just kind of like me making fun of a period in my life when people didn't see me around for a while.
My birthday is on Thursday. I'll be 33.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.
My whole life, the last 36 years, is in that movie.
People applaud me for spending my own money. Every time I give speeches about the movie or talk about it, they always mention the fact that I spent my own money.
Sesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.
Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.
That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
The comedy comes from the situation, as opposed to me bumping into a wall or jumping off of a table and falling down.
The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.
The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.
The reality is that 99 percent of the kids in this town come from someone. I can go down the list with the Sheen brothers, the Baldwin brothers. Nicolas Cage.
There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy.
They don't look outside the box, so instead of waiting I just made fun of that situation.
They thought my movies were bad. Why are they paying this moron to do this?
When I'm doing comedy it's like Rodney Dangerfield going on stage and not saying I don't get any respect. It's what people love.
When Sam was getting hot I was like 17 years old. I was in awe of him.
Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.
You have to have a little leverage. Quentin Tarantino wasn't calling me up.
You plan and sit down with everyone, here's what we're going to do. It's very hard.
You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.
While on her way to the hospital to give birth to Pauly, his mother was yet undecided on a name for her child. She passed the Paulee Body shop and a Montgomery Ward, and that's how Pauly got his name.
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