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Jon Hamm
American
Actor
Born:
Mar 10
,
1971
Better
Life
Me
People
Time
You
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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
You
Idiot
White
Enough
Ways
Jobs
Guy
Guys
Cast
Tend
Weirdo
Rock
Been
Lot
Get
Handsome
Whether
Against
Convincing
Meant
Meant To Be
Fortunate
Certified
Who
Bridesmaids
Play
Playing
I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.
Jon Hamm
Time
Good
Good Time
Sullen
Laugh
Brood
Rather
Like
Than
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
Life
Best
Dog
Better
Big
Complications
Make
Although
Deal
Fan
Hard
Fun
Actually
I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years.
Jon Hamm
Hundred
Hundred Years
Tell
Could
Years
Listen
Stories
Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.
Jon Hamm
You
College
Young
Everyone
Out
Through
Weirdness
Person
Trying
Goes
Young Person
Figure
Things
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
Funny
Intelligence
Matter
Will
Mouth
Out
Characters
Physical
Emotional
Emotional Intelligence
Like
Sound
Coming
Play
Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.
Jon Hamm
Difficult
Drama
Call
Sheet
Any
Being
Really
Episodic
Hard
When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid.
Jon Hamm
Teacher
Kid
Student
Because
Did
I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.
Jon Hamm
Funny
Jokes
People
Funny People
Tell
No Desire
Onstage
Had
Up
Get
Prefer
Really
Next
Stand
Desire
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
People
Surgeon
About
Talk
How
Go
Um
Whenever
Want
Hard
Actor
Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.
Jon Hamm
You
Easy
Memorize
Pretty
Lines
Being
Actor
Actually
I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.
Jon Hamm
Life
My Life
Never
Cheated
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
Life
You
Yourself
People
Better
Try
Some People
My Life
Somewhere
Older
Others
Those
Some
More
Mysterious
Part
Put
Taking
Gotten
Lot
Up
Than
Get
Getting
Situations
Process
Realize
Toll
Growing
Growing Up
Away
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
Jingles
Television
Stuff
Advertising
Always
Been
Commercials
Fan
Loved
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
Family
Me
People
Argument
Down
Think
Side
Our
Way
Kids
Would
Would-Be
Having
Having Children
Come
Know
Sure
Becomes
Lot
Friends
Celebration
Stable
Children
Want
Either
Hardcore
Necessarily
I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.
Jon Hamm
Rain
Roof
Miserable
Shared
Drove
Around
Did
Rabbit
Roommates
Much
Utterly
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
Day
You
Game
Every Day
School
Mother
Field
Every
Meet
Complex
Neighborhood
Kids
Would
Would-Be
Some
Tag
Until
Ball
Came
Up
Just
After
After-School
Apartment
Lived
Chosen
Play
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
Teenager
Teenagers
About
Guys
Dawson
Like
Looked
Auditioning
Era
Came
Tiny
Who
Dads
Ever
Creek
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
Life
Other
Kids
Parent
Like
Also
Becoming
Close
Option
Stop
Door
Whole
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
Life
Time
Me
You
Age
Better
Losing
Long
Parents
Long Time
Control
Young
Sense
Live
Gave
See
Direction
Both
Push
Long Time Ago
Existence
Stopped
Young Age
While
Really
Believing
Here
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
Teacher
Great
Me
Respect
Power
Think
Someone
More
Because
Got
Influence
Acting
Teachers
Profession
Kept
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
Science
World
Cancer
Rocket Science
Difficult
Changing
Tremendously
OK
Mining
Cosmic
Lead
Understand
Am
Rocket
Curing
Where
Order
Anything
Things
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