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" Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that. "
Ride
You
Fun
" Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines. "
Actor
Being
Pretty
" Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard. "
Difficult
Hard
Any
" Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. "
People
Negative
Positive
" Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out. "
You
Young
Trying
" For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very. "
Mom
Rage
Me
" I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that. "
Never
Movies
Baby
" I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25. "
Who
Tiny
Teenagers
" I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years. "
Tell
Years
Stories
" I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me. "
Me
People
Children
" I don't need to be married, but I feel married. "
Married
Feel
Need
" I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable. "
Miserable
Roommates
Rain
" I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it. "
Comfortable
Manufacturing
Character
" If you're the handsome white guy, you tend to get cast as guys who are meant to be convincing in their jobs. What I've been fortunate enough to do, whether it's playing a certified idiot on '30 Rock' or a weirdo in 'Bridesmaids,' is play against that in a lot of ways. "
White
Enough
You
" I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for. "
Power
Think
Teacher
" I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people. "
Up
Desire
Funny
" I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means. "
Marriage
Forward
Day
" I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop. "
Door
Like
Stop
" I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen. "
Good
Time
Than
" I'm a big dog fan. They're the best. They make life better, although they're hard to deal with. But complications in life are actually what make it fun. "
Fun
Hard
Life
" I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. "
Real Life
Life
Real
" I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life. "
Cheated
Life
My Life
" I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero. "
Superhero
Gay
" I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope. "
Ball
Behind
I Can
" I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar. "
Tom
Wanted
Never
" I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own. "
Time
Hair
My Own
" I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. "
Color
Jewelry
Life
" It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it. "
More
Me
Marriage
" I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you? "
Only
Your
Important
" It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set. "
Attention
Kind
Actor
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