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There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

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Ed Helms
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 24
Actor
Banjoist
Character Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Atlanta
Georgia
Edward Parker Helms
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It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a lot too. And it's kind of a crapshoot, you never know which one... I mean a lot of time improvisation doesn't go anywhere and it's not good at all but, so what was written is often times better.
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The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.
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I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was fought, and it's just more present in the sort of psyche of the South. So I've always just been interested and sort of fascinated by [Civil War].
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That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.
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All I knew is that I loved movies and comedy and TV, and I wanted to perform. I made a bunch of shorts and movies in college, and that was always fun too. I directed some plays in college. It was taking it all in and trying to immerse myself in as much of it as possible.
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I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way.
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[Chickens] are very frenetic. So if you think about it and you look back in other movies, like if someone's taking a crazy bus ride somewhere and it's like, 'Oh, what makes this bus ride crazy?' There's a chicken in the aisle, or like there's a chicken in a crate. So I just think the presence of chickens makes things crazy.
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