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Nick Offerman
American
Actor
Born:
Jun 26
,
1970
Big
Love
Me
People
Think
You
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If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.
Nick Offerman
Dried
Properly
Could
New
Make
Box
Pizza
Used
I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
Nick Offerman
Steadily
Since
Journeyman
Well
Well Known
Known
Around
Been
Dependable
Public
Working
Actor
If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.
Nick Offerman
You
Trust
Recognize
Able
Some
Someone
Point
Hear
Lot
Times
Get
Artist
Going
Bankers
Many
Original
Thinker
Soda
And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
Nick Offerman
Positive
You
Lost
Incredibly
Positive Things
Sight
Performing
Most
Labor
Hands
Your
Manual
Manual Labor
Satisfying
Things
I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.
Nick Offerman
Family
Gun
Important
Fishermen
Hunt
Folk
Come
Fishing
Very
Us
If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.
Nick Offerman
Time
Day
Enough
More
Had
Hours
Shows
Watch
I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
Nick Offerman
Myself
Simple
Discipline
Project
Give
Had
Learn
Just
Happier
Depressed
Much
Less
I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.
Nick Offerman
Family
People
Think
Kind
Perceive
Attention
Sissy
American
Manliness
Regular
Farmers
Fascinating
Amongst
Level
Receive
My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.
Nick Offerman
Me
Pickup
Big
Guys
Uncles
Could
Pick
Masculinity
Trucks
Hairy
Up
Grew
Bus
Them
Sweaty
Farmers
Who
Illinois
I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.
Nick Offerman
Love
Me
You
Cooking
Our
Charcoal
Beat
House
Making
Lot
Just
Anybody
Lamb
Grill
Chops
Pork
When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.
Nick Offerman
People
Building
Those
Angeles
Structures
Got
Yards
Los
Los Angeles
Cutting
Started
I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.
Nick Offerman
Men
TV
Allowed
Longer
Hairy
Very
Film
Film And TV
I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.
Nick Offerman
Business
Integrity
Distract
Seen
Community
Think
Broadway
TV
Neither
Rival
Never
Raw
New
Talent
Because
Nor
Chicago
York
New York
Theater
Film
Film And TV
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.
Nick Offerman
Fight
Experience
Dance
Stage
Scene
Combat
Also
Lot
Chicago
Theater
Worked
Choreographer
I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.
Nick Offerman
Broken
You
Tools
Window
Always
Up
Tire
Grew
Flat
Might
Farmers
Illinois
Among
Need
For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.
Nick Offerman
Work
Pickup
Ride
Big
Trees
Harvest
Driving
Drove
California
Ford
Because
Always
Years
Up
Northern
Northern California
Wood
Where
Two-Thirds
I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
Nick Offerman
Me
People
Opportunity
Try
Own
My Own
Parks
Recreation
Make
Encourage
Hands
Affords
Soapbox
Which
Agenda
Exploit
Things
Enjoying
I am a saxophone player.
Nick Offerman
Saxophone
Am
Player
I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.
Nick Offerman
Me
Building
Spent
Scenery
Develop
Allowed
Part
Also
Years
Up
Shop
Grew
Theatrical
Really
Skills
Large
Many
Large Part
Income
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
Nick Offerman
Funny
Me
Bent
Kind
Never
Around
Up
Any
Artistic
Anybody
Growing
Growing Up
I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.
Nick Offerman
Myself
Good
Strict
Pounds
Weigh
Moderation
Wonderfully
Hedonistic
Really
Appetite
I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
Nick Offerman
Thanks
Small
Both
Excellent
Small Town
Town
Him
Up
Grew
Coach
Illinois
Dad
Baseball
Fundamentals
Basketball
You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.
Nick Offerman
Time
You
Wait
Build
Sit
Having
Blanket
Know
Call
Learn
How
Go
Chest
Lot
End
Up
Either
Spare
Spare Time
Agent
Working
Your
Even
Starbucks
Actor
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