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" No matter what a guy says, if he shows up at all the places you're at, he's hooked. "
John Krasinski
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" I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that. "
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" It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me. "
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" I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. "
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" I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset. "
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" My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus. "
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" I love feeling strong. You pick up your daughter with ease while everyone else makes a little grunt when they pick up their kids. "
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" Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive. "
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Life
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" There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more. "
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" I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film. "
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Best
" I don't go out - ever. I'm lucky enough to have awesome friends, and we always end up at someone's house. We're big house-party guys. "
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House
End
" Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact. "
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Camera
Movie
You
" I went to Dave Eggers with this idea of doing a movie about a guy going through some sort of Frank Capra-esque journey. "
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Guy
Going
Doing
" Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge. "
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Think
Will
Boston
" For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy. "
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Guy
" For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect. "
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Perfect
Television
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" Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing. "
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People
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" By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.' "
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Week
Work
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" If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff. "
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High School
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Mom
" I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them. "
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Loved
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" You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level. "
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" I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions. "
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" I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them. "
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Way
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" Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way. "
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You
People
" If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks. "
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" I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories. "
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Think
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" I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is. "
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Work
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" I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing. "
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Now
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" It's funny: I've always had the analogy of a snow globe, that Hollywood is a snow globe. No, it's true. If you shake it up, you can look at it and really enjoy it. But don't ever go in. Don't ever buy into it and be like, 'I deserve all of this!' because it can go away at any time, so just have a lot of fun. "
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" The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker. "
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