Quotes by Jon Hamm - Page 2

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 / Actor
Teacher
Acting
Influence
Profession
Thinking
Teachers
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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 / Actor
Attention
Leader
Nerves
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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 / Actor
Funny
Emotional Intelligence
Sound
Coming
Mouth
Physical
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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 / Actor
Leader
Nerve-Racking
Center
Craves
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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 / Actor
Dad
Guy
Teenager
Tiny
Auditioning
Creek
Dads
Dawson
Guys
Looked
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Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.
Jon Hamm / Actor
People
Thinking
Variables
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The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Taken
Myself Man More
Ladies
Parts
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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 / Actor
Science
Cancer
Cosmic
Difficult
Mining
Order
Rocket Science
Curing
Lead
Rocket
Tremendously
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When I was a little kid, I kind of liked the commercials more than a lot of the stuff on TV. My favorite ones were the Miller Lite ads with all the jocks in them. "Tastes great, less filling."
Jon Hamm / Actor
Kids
Littles
Stuff
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I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Mean
People
Thinking
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It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Ebb And Flow
Facts
People
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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 / Actor
Couple
Mean
People
Marriage Me People
For The People
Gravitate
Simpler
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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 / Actor
Cool
Acting
Athlete
Childhood
Fun
Horse
Roles
Guns
Extension
Shoot
Horses
Ride
Ride Horses
So Much Fun
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It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard to come to the end of things, but I think when it is done right, it is a very satisfying way to appreciate something.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Nice
Thinking
Writing
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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 / Actor
Long
Negative
Weak
Anything
Actually
Admit
Seen
Fix
Run
Say
Help
Long Run
Move
Where
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I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Comfortable
Manufacturing
Himself
Mode
Whitman
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The world keeps moving, the world keeps turning, and people get older, and young people become older and more important and cooler and interesting, and actually staying the same becomes a liability, especially in the advertising industry.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Interesting
Moving
People
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When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Life Better Parents
Equipped
Fills
Gap
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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 / Actor
Apartment
Chosen
Neighborhood
Tag
Ball
Complex
Field
Game Day Every Day
Meet
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People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Kids
Groups
People
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We know that inevitably the millennials will get old and tired again, and then there will be the bilennials or trilennials, or whatever the next generation is, and we're all going to end up on our lawn shaking our fists in a bathrobe yelling at the moon.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Moon
Tired
Yelling
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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 / Actor
Believe
Existence
Long
Long Time Ago
Losing
Parent
Young Age
Life Time Age
Believing
Direction
Push
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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 / Actor
Jobs
Bridesmaids
Convincing
Fortunate
Handsome
Meant To Be
Weirdo
Meant
Cast
Certified
Tend
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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 / Actor
Dad
Boxes
Color
Guy
Jewelry
Links
Opening
Rainbow
Remember
Suits
Summer
Watches
Winter
Closet
Full
Unfulfilled
Ways
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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 / Actor
Growing Up
People
Trying
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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 / Actor
Growing Up
Mysterious
Process
Life Yourself Better
Somewhere
Gotten
Older
Realize
Situations
Some People
Taking
Toll
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I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Kids
Argument
Celebration
Children
Hardcore
Having Children
Stable
Thinking
Family Me People
Family Me Children
Necessarily
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I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Marriage
Mean
Moving
Our Lives
Pages
Love Great Me
Forward
Loves
Lady
Move Forward
Page
Same Page
Third
Whenever
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I'm wearing pants, for f---'s sake. Lay off. I mean, it's not like I'm a f---ing lead miner. There are harder jobs in the world. But when people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my c---, I feel like that wasn't part of the deal ... But whatever. I guess it's better than being called out for the opposite.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Jobs
Mean
Opposites
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Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Believe
Silly
Talking
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I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Kids
Beautiful
Creative
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It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life. But no, I would watch all of them - the Warner Bros. cartoons and the Bugs Bunnys and then the Tex Avery stuff. Looking back on it, they were so incredibly subversive for their time. You'd think, "Oh, they're just making jokes and this or that." But when you watch them as an adult, you think, "Oh no, they were talking about some pretty deep stuff."
Jon Hamm / Actor
People
Talking
Thinking
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Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.
Jon Hamm / Actor
Kids
Book
Powerful
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