Paul Reiser Quotes & Sayings

“Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.”

“Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.”

“And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.”

“But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over.”

“We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.”

“There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.”

“Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.”

“We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.”

“But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.”

“I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.”