Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Related Quotes:
" 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
" 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 could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years. "
Jon Hamm
Tell
Years
Stories
" I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life. "
Jon Hamm
Cheated
Life
My Life
" I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation. "
Jon Hamm
Funny
Good
Like
" 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
" I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people. "
Jon Hamm
Up
Desire
Funny
" 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
" I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare. "
Jon Hamm
Single
Time
Single Mom
" 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
" Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines. "
Jon Hamm
Actor
Being
Pretty
" It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set. "
Jon Hamm
Attention
Kind
Actor
" 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'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. "
Jon Hamm
Real Life
Life
Real
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Mom
Rage
Me
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for. "
Jon Hamm
Power
Think
Teacher
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you? "
Jon Hamm
Only
Your
Important
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Process
My Life
People
" 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
Age
Life
Live
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Door
Like
Stop
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Fun
Hard
Life
" 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
" I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen. "
Jon Hamm
Good
Time
Than