Jake Johnson Quotes

#1. I love when people on Twitter give advice.

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#2. I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.

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#3. I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

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#4. If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'

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#5. I prefer to work with first-time directors.

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#6. I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

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#7. My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.

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#8. I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

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#9. You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

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#10. I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger ... it's just in my blood.

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#11. I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

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#12. Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

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#13. My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

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#14. I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

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#15. You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

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#16. I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.

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