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One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

John Krasinski

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John Krasinski
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: October 20
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After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent.' No, he's great. He's a good guy.
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Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap.
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You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
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For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.
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That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.
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We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie [Sicario], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.
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People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.
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I love this script [The Hollars] because I'm lucky enough to come from a really tightknit family.
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When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.
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My favorite scene on the show [The Office] is on the booze cruise when I finally get to talk to her and tell her, and I react exactly how I would react by saying nothing.
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We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.
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I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.
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I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.
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A lot of times in movies, you see the small town people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.
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Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?
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To be that big of a star and that grounded and that classy, I'm mean [ George Clooney] was a true mentor for me and, as a director, he's incredible.
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The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.
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It's a great wake-up call for our entire industry: What movies are we making? What storytellers are we allowing to tell the stories? What people are we allowing to be cast in those stories? I think we need newer stories, and more people given the opportunity to do anything they want.
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The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.
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I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, It's such a drag to not see your kids. Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.
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