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" And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do. "
Labor
Sight
You
" For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees. "
Trees
Harvest
Driving
" I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills. "
Skills
Scenery
Me
" I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer. "
Know
Confidence
Unique
" I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show. "
Happy
Always
Believe
" I am a saxophone player. "
Player
I Am
Am
" I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk. "
Fishing
Important
Family
" If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day. "
More
Time
Watch
" If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza. "
Box
Used
Could
" If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda. "
You
Artist
Trust
" I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window. "
You
Tools
Always
" I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball. "
Baseball
Basketball
Small Town
" I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color. "
Love
Color
Consistency
" I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats. "
Beat
You
Me
" I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation. "
Myself
Good
Moderation
" I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. "
Opportunity
People
My Own
" I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy. "
Very
TV
Men
" I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather. "
Weather
Youth
Kind
" I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family. "
Think
People
Kind
" It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent. "
Up
Growing
Kind
" I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman. "
Working
Well
Dependable
" I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple. "
Just
Discipline
Simple
" I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good. "
Trouble
Good
Any
" I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it. "
Business
Integrity
Community
" I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater. "
Chicago
Experience
Dance
" I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation. "
Like
Feel
Stronger
" Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy. "
Meat
Think
Love
" My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus. "
Me
Masculinity
Up
" My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities. "
Think
Comedy
Her
" There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down. "
Never
People
Turn
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