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The Sweetest Things Paul Rudd Has Said About Being A Dad

He loves his kids.

by Jen McGuire
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Paul Rudd just gives off that positive dad energy. In fact, the father of 17-year-old son Jack and 13-year-old daughter Darby with wife, film writer Julie Yaeger, has shared some pretty sweet quotes about parenting over the years.

I tell [my daughter], ‘you know, you’re the real Cassie’ ― and I do little things in the movie that are little things for her.

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All of a sudden your sensitivity is heightened. I see things on TV like ‘Undercover Boss’ and they knock me to the ground. My kids make fun of me. ‘Oh, Dad’s crying again.’

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My favorite thing is when they roll their eyes because it’s such a dad joke, but I know they find it funny. They kind of try to fight a smile.

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I identify myself as a parent and a husband way more than somebody who rides around on the back of an ant.

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To see my daughter kind of watching [Friends] was like, ‘wow, this is interesting.’ But then she’ll be like, ‘Well, you’re not Joey.’

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He said, ‘When I yell ‘action,’ you’re not allowed to talk.’ And I realize he’s been to too many sets that I have been working on. And then I started laughing so hard at that, and then he started laughing, and then he just went, ‘Cut.’

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If my kids were here they’d tell you, ‘ugh I don’t buy it [on being People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2021].

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If I can walk around in my underwear and pull it up super high so it’s just gross-looking and then try and be very serious with them. I like to do that, pretend to be very mad and have my underwear hiked up, really high.

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My daughter, who is 7, all she does is draw pictures of Ant-Man and the Wasp. I mean, she’s the sweetest thing in the world, so I have lots of pictures of Ant-Man, which she drew.

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This is the first film of mine that he’s seen and it makes me proud and nervous at the same time. I took him to the premiere ― he’d never been to a premiere, and that was a very moving experience for me.

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