Canadian - Actor | August 27, 1981 -
I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'
Patrick J. Adams
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Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting.
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The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored.
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One of my first jobs was on a show called 'Cold Case.'
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I love Robert Capa.
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High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.
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I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.
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For me, university was a bit of a rebellious streak. I love teachers but I'm inherently a bit of an anarchist and don't trust you because you're my teacher. Somewhere around my second or third year, I realized as an artist that it's up to us to choose our path, and there's nothing wrong with being given many different tools to put in your tool bag.
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I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even want to audition, and kept thinking, 'This isn't funny at all.'
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I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.
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I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of 'Suits.' It's broken into such small pieces.
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My dad was a journalist. One great trip we took was to Israel. We went there and drove through the whole country, and it was pretty incredible. We went to the Philippines and saw the beauty of that country but also what poverty really looks like. That had a profound effect on me.
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