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" One of my first jobs was on a show called 'Cold Case.' "

Patrick J. Adams

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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 always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book. "

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" 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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" 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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" I actually dealt blackjack for a summer. "

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" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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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" The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored. "

Patrick J. Adams

" I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even want to audition, and kept thinking, 'This isn't funny at all.' "

Patrick J. Adams

" Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" I love Robert Capa. "

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" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" My dad was a journalist. One great trip we took was to Israel. We went there and drove through the whole country, and it was pretty incredible. We went to the Philippines and saw the beauty of that country but also what poverty really looks like. That had a profound effect on me. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" '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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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!' "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" Theater is a way to keep challenging myself. "

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" By the time I got 'Suits,' I thought my time in Hollywood was coming to an end. "

Patrick J. Adams

" 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. "

Patrick J. Adams

" I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid. "

Patrick J. Adams

" I believe in picking a strong ending. "

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" To get a job as a blackjack dealer, you have to be able to count very quickly. Obviously, you need to do at least math, adding up to 21 very quickly. "

Patrick J. Adams

" I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater. "

Patrick J. Adams