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" Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard. "
Jon Hamm
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" 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. "
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Forward
Day
" When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid. "
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" 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. "
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" I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years. "
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" I don't need to be married, but I feel married. "
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Feel
Need
" I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar. "
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Wanted
Never
" I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own. "
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Hair
My Own
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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More
Me
Marriage
" Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important. "
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Attention
Medical
Important
" This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence. "
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Mouth
Matter
Funny
" I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. "
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Real Life
Life
Real
" I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life. "
Jon Hamm
Cheated
Life
My Life
" We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it. "
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World
Yourself
Live
" I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people. "
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Up
Desire
Funny
" I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen. "
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Good
Time
Than
" I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation. "
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Funny
Good
Like
" 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. "
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Door
Like
Stop
" 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. "
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Who
Tiny
Teenagers
" Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out. "
Jon Hamm
You
Young
Trying
" I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others. "
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Process
My Life
People
" 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. "
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Power
Think
Teacher
" The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same. "
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Running
More
Man
" My mother and I lived in an apartment complex in a neighborhood. So there was a gaggle of kids. Every day after school, we'd just meet up in a field, and some game would be chosen, Wiffle ball or tag, and you'd play that until the streetlights came on. "
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You
Game
Mother
" I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women. "
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Been
Women
Relationship
" What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it. "
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Cancer
World
Understand
" 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. "
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Color
Jewelry
Life
" I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff. "
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Loved
Television
Always
" 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. "
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Never
Movies
Baby