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" I like a good pool party. "
Miles Teller
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" Certain times, I'll choose my words very carefully and maybe come off a little more boring. "
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" Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar. "
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" Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting. "
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" The only thing fame has changed about me is that I'm more self-aware when I go out in public. "
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" First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.' "
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" I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose. "
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" Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself. "
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" I really consider acting a high art. "
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" There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor. "
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" I think about so many actors I look up to and wonder what people were saying about them at the age of 27 or 28. I'm sure it's not all flattering stuff. "
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" When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny. "
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" I've always felt like I can dance. "
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" I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me. "
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" So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility. "
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" I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands. "
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" 'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance. "
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" People would probably say my mom raised very confident children, but it comes from a place of being comfortable in your own skin. "
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" Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy. "
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" My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. "
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" I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I'm close with my family. I'm dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I'm a man of the people. Because I feel that way. "
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" It's hard to get to the right position, to be somebody who is commercially successful and critically acclaimed. That's the sweet spot. "
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" Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like. "
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" I absolutely do care what people think about me. "
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