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" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Loved
Television
Always
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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. "
Jon Hamm
Ride
You
Fun
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
More
Me
Marriage
" Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. "
Jon Hamm
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Life
Live
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Color
Jewelry
Life
" I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. "
Jon Hamm
Real Life
Life
Real
" I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women. "
Jon Hamm
Been
Women
Relationship
" I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation. "
Jon Hamm
Funny
Good
Like
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
You
Better
Life
" 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
Talk
Want
" I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare. "
Jon Hamm
Single
Time
Single Mom
" I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years. "
Jon Hamm
Tell
Years
Stories
" Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important. "
Jon Hamm
Attention
Medical
Important
" I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life. "
Jon Hamm
Cheated
Life
My Life
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Me
People
Children
" Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines. "
Jon Hamm
Actor
Being
Pretty
" I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar. "
Jon Hamm
Tom
Wanted
Never
" When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid. "
Jon Hamm
Because
Kid
Student
" We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it. "
Jon Hamm
World
Yourself
Live
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Miserable
Roommates
Rain
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Cancer
World
Understand
" I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope. "
Jon Hamm
Ball
Behind
I Can
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Running
More
Man
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Mouth
Matter
Funny
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
White
Enough
You
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
You
Game
Mother
" I don't need to be married, but I feel married. "
Jon Hamm
Married
Feel
Need
" Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out. "
Jon Hamm
You
Young
Trying
" I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero. "
Jon Hamm
Superhero
Gay
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Never
Movies
Baby
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Who
Tiny
Teenagers