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" I always stay with my parents. When you come home, you gotta do that. It's weird to be like, 'Hey, I'm at a hotel. Drive 20 minutes to see me, and we'll have dinner.' "

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" When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. "

John Krasinski

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" The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage. "

" My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus. "

" My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood. "

" Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end. "

" The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker. "

John Krasinski

Perfect

Pizza

" I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play. "

" I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. "

" You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level. "

" I remember when I saw 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' I wanted to go out and direct a movie right there on the streets of Manhattan. Unfortunately, you can't without permits. "

John Krasinski

Sunshine

Mind

" I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones. "

" I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went. "

" I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney. "

John Krasinski

Work

Sex

" Hearing anyone think that I'm any form of sexy or handsome is incredibly flattering. "

" I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years. "

" Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important. "

" It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day. "

" I love feeling strong. You pick up your daughter with ease while everyone else makes a little grunt when they pick up their kids. "

" I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that. "

John Krasinski

Think

Love

" All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem. "

" I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there. "

" I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun. "

John Krasinski

Play

Looking

" A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role. "

" For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy. "

John Krasinski

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Guy

" I went to Dave Eggers with this idea of doing a movie about a guy going through some sort of Frank Capra-esque journey. "

" I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film. "

" I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up. "

" Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive. "

" I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun. "

" Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar. "