American - Actor | March 10, 1971 -
When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.
Jon Hamm
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I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.
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The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same.
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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.
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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.
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Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.
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When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid.
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I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar.
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Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important.
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