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" 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. "

Jon Hamm

Comfortable

Manufacturing

Character

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Jon Hamm

Running

Man

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Jon Hamm

Desire

Funny

" I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare. "

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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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