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" When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny. "

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" So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility. "

Miles Teller

Man

Work

Winning

" I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that. "

" I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone. "

" Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar. "

" I like a good pool party. "

" First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.' "

" I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose. "

" I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music. "

" It's hard to get to the right position, to be somebody who is commercially successful and critically acclaimed. That's the sweet spot. "

" I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands. "

" The only thing fame has changed about me is that I'm more self-aware when I go out in public. "

" I absolutely do care what people think about me. "

Miles Teller

Care

Absolutely

" I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I'm close with my family. I'm dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I'm a man of the people. Because I feel that way. "

" I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.' "

" Reed Richards in 'Fantastic Four,' to me, was a huge character departure from, like, 'That Awkward Moment' or anything that I'd just done before that. "

Miles Teller

Moment

" When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me. "

Miles Teller

Loved

School

" 'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance. "

" People would probably say my mom raised very confident children, but it comes from a place of being comfortable in your own skin. "

" Respect the person you're with. My philosophy is, if I'm not happier when I'm with you, then there's no reason for me to be with you. I'm happy on my own. "

Miles Teller

Philosophy

Own

" I think about so many actors I look up to and wonder what people were saying about them at the age of 27 or 28. I'm sure it's not all flattering stuff. "

" I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social. "

" Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself. "

" I've been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I'm not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone. "

Miles Teller

You

Book

" Maybe some people have been turned off of me because I take what I'm doing pretty seriously, and I don't feel the need to charm everybody. "

" Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like. "

" I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero. "

" I still think you shouldn't use acting as therapy. "

" My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. "

Miles Teller

School

Never

" The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn. "

" It's important to have your own voice. "