Danny Pudi Quotes

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

I'm not gonna be able to grow a beard. I've realized my limitations as a human.

I've always been very aware of my own humanity. The limits of my humanity.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

I read a lot, and I watch a lot of TV and film now. That's my homework. Like I said, my Netflix. I've watched Aliens a couple times this week, Dawn Of The Dead. And that's what's really cool too. It's nostalgia, because I saw these shows, these movies, a lot of them, when I was a kid, and they're different now when you watch them. I'm like, "Wow, I can't believe my family let me watch that," and "I must have missed that the first time around."

I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.

I was actually really impressed by how many awkward stories we had, ranging from bad haircuts to one guy told us about being on the beach and he threw a Frisbee and it hit a lady in the head. His immediate reaction was to turn and he found a kid next to him and pointed to the kid, it's those kinds of moments. I was really impressed with the volume of fun stories we got to play with. No one was a loser in this game; they were all winners .

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

When you have Ken Jeong naked next to you when you're doing a scene, it's pretty easy to stay loose.

You know, you're just sitting with him [Chevy Chase], then you're doing a scene with him and acting, and all of a sudden you go, "Omigod, that's Chevy Chase!" And then you've got to keep acting. "Danny, your lines? Your lines...? You've got to keep going!" "Oh, sorry, sorry!"

I wanted to be a part of an ensemble cast. It's such a wonderful, beautiful thing to be in a comedy where you're working and watching amazing actors, working with amazing material, and you're able to jump in and bounce off it.

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.