Paul Reubens Quotes

I know you are, but what am I?

Why would I, in a million years, want to do anything even remotely having to do with child molestation on a children’s show? See, I take having a kids’ show real seriously. I think it’s an enormous responsibility.

The public may think I’m weird. They may think I’m crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That’s all fine. As long as one of the things you’re not thinking about me is that I’m a pedophile. Because that’s not true.

The original suit was designed by a guy named Mr. Jay from Hollywood. But nowadays I’m having the suit duplicated. At this point I have about three good suits and about three really raggedy ones.

I call it… the hot dog tree, because… it’s a hot dog tree.

I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there’s something I really like or until I come up with something. In that respect the proportion of what’s mine and what’s other people’s is controlled by me. It isn’t even fair to talk about.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that’s really intense. That’s something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something’s out there in the air that is really bad.

I enjoy getting to be arty and quirky and weird and all the things that I don’t have that much choice with. You just sort of use what you got.

Yeah, this is what I think was a quality of movies, is you’re in a group of people. You’re sharing something with people. Whether those other people make you laugh more, you’re all laughing. You’re all happy together. There’s something… manmade about that in a way that’s – I’m not sure how that manifests itself in nature, but culturally we’ve set that up when we invented theater and the movies and all that stuff.

People read so much into what I do. It’s fascinating to me because some of it’s probably there, but I haven’t thought of it.

I’ve been super lucky in that I’ve either been in or helped create situations where I do what I want. I’m super lucky. I get to do what I want and create art and make people laugh, and it’s really fun.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don’t know any jokes to tell. And when I do they’re really flat and don’t work.