When everything gets turned upside down, it only leads to better quality stuff. John Krasinski More Quotes by John Krasinski More Quotes From John Krasinski 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. John Krasinski hurtful writing people I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them. John Krasinski jobs kids thinking Family comes first for me in every single way. John Krasinski family-comes-first way firsts I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked on in college. A friend of mine asked me to do a stage reading of that book and I was just completely blown away because, at that point, I was like, 'Acting's having fun with your friends and making people laugh.' John Krasinski reading fun book 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. John Krasinski guy done thinking [The Office] is incredible. It's slightly overwhelming because you don't think that anything you do....having anybody enjoy what you do is such a treat and so I know I've said this a hundred times but we owe it all to our writers. John Krasinski incredibles office thinking To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars, because as you can see, they're very intimate, very intense scenes. You don't want to break the actor's character and you don't want to break their momentum, so as the actor, I tried not to call cut as much as I could, and almost make it feel like a play, just set this environment where these amazing actors could do what they wanted to do. John Krasinski environment cutting character My favorite thing is watching people watch The Hollars movie and then come up to me and say whether they went through an experience like that or they went through an experience nothing like that, but it still was their mom or "that was my brother" or whatever it was - that's great. John Krasinski mom brother people The idea of family is really one of the only things we can all say we have and we can't run away from. Whether you like your family or not. Whether it's complicated or not, there's something - call it spiritual, call it existential, whatever - that's in you. John Krasinski complicated spiritual running When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved. John Krasinski feelings people thinking Ninety percent of your job is done if you find the right cast. John Krasinski done I don't think I've ever signed onto anything as quickly as I did The Hollars, because I come from a really loving, well-connected family, where we see each other all the time. And when I was done with this script, I was like, "Oh my god, that's my family!" This is obviously a very dysfunctional family, but there was something about it that was sort of universal. And I think that in this day and age in today's world - there's a lot of drama out there. It's nice to tell stories about things as simple and powerful as family. John Krasinski nice powerful drama I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call. John Krasinski daughter understanding giving I certainly went into losing my virginity terrified. Going on stage, I could only have imagined the worst possible outcomes. And then it went fine. John Krasinski stage outcomes losing Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office]. John Krasinski keys real thinking I love to have the people watching [The Office ] just because it's fun to have people watching, but our fans are so dedicated, so smart and so cool for the most part. We don't have these fans that overwhelm you if they see you on the street. They're like, 'Love the show', or 'What an idiot. You should have said something to her last week.' I'm like, 'I know.' John Krasinski smart should-have fun We have the best writers in the business [on The Office]. John Krasinski office 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. John Krasinski compromise actors kids Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor. John Krasinski real honor bye The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself. John Krasinski one-liner guy home
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