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" My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened. "
Patrick J. Adams
Career
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" I don't think people can die on 'Suits.' It's still, at its heart, an aspirational show, and it would be so hard to watch these people wrestle with that. "
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" There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play. "
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" I'm a Virgo; I naturally love to organize things. "
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" I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of 'Suits.' It's broken into such small pieces. "
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" I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!' "
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" What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love. "
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" My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me. "
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Always
Living
" It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately. "
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World
" I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about. "
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" The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored. "
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You
" So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that. "
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Fox
Me
" I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me as a kid. It was just so magical that I was like, 'There's something going on back there that I don't know.' But, when I watched theater, it was something that was happening in front of me. "
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Know
Magical
" 'Suits' is 'Suits.' It's grown and changed and evolved in lots of ways that I'm super proud of, but as an actor on a show like this, you try and make it something other than what it is sometimes. "
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Sometimes
Suits
Proud
" I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV. "
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You
Ask
Change
" I actually dealt blackjack for a summer. "
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Actually
Blackjack
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" I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids. "
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Love
Kids
Just
" By the time I got 'Suits,' I thought my time in Hollywood was coming to an end. "
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Time
Thought
Hollywood
" I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working. I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people. I've spent a lot of years getting to know people in the business, and that really helps. It depends. You can have some pretty terrible auditions. "
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People
Chance
Love
" I love Robert Capa. "
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I Love
Robert
Love
" One of my first jobs was on a show called 'Cold Case.' "
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Jobs
First
Case
" I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater. "
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Woke
Play
" I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something. "
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Movies
" The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive. "
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" High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot. "
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School
Time
" Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out. "
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Long
You
Time
" I believe in picking a strong ending. "
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Ending
Believe
I Believe
" I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating. "
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How
Responsibility
" We'd get into trouble a lot in school, and I could sweet talk my way out of it. I was really a charmer: I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down, and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something. "
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Talking
Down
Me
" I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid. "
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Trying
Kid
" Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting. "
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