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" I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. "
Jon Hamm
Real Life
Life
Real
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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. "
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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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" I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people. "
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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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" 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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" I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you? "
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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 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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" 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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" Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines. "
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Pretty
" Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out. "
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Young
Trying
" 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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Like
Stop
" 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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Television
Always
" I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen. "
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Good
Time
Than
" Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. "
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Negative
Positive
" 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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" 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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Baby
" 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.' "
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Surgeon
Talk
Want
" 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'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
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People
" I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life. "
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Life
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" When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid. "
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Kid
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" 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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Teenagers
" 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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Rage
Me
" 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
" I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare. "
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" I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar. "
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Wanted
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" I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero. "
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Gay
" I don't need to be married, but I feel married. "
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Married
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Need
" I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years. "
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