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" Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. "
Jon Hamm
People
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" 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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" I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero. "
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" When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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World
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" 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. "
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Hard
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" I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare. "
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Time
Single Mom
" I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years. "
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Years
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" 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. "
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" I don't need to be married, but I feel married. "
Jon Hamm
Married
Feel
Need
" 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
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" I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own. "
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" Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out. "
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You
Young
Trying
" I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar. "
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Tom
Wanted
Never
" When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid. "
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Because
Kid
Student
" Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines. "
Jon Hamm
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" Whenever people want to talk about how hard it is to be an actor, I want to go, 'Um, it's hard to be a baby-heart surgeon.' "
Jon Hamm
Surgeon
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Want
" I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people. "
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" 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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White
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" I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation. "
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Funny
Good
Like
" 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 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
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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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" 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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" I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen. "
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Good
Time
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" I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope. "
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" 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
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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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Marriage
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Day
" 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. "
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