Top 29 Jake M. Johnson Quotes
#1. I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought I could bring something to, I would love to do that.
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#2. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
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#3. All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.
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#4. When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.
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#5. I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because it's murdering other animals outside and eating their meat.
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#6. I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.
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#7. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.
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#8. I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.
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#9. Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.
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#10. There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.
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#12. I never thought I'd be one of those guys who gets recognized.
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#13. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.
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#14. Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.
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#15. The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."
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#16. If I'm in a bar and I gotta be sitting next to some clown who's like, "It's my tune," I don't want to hear you belt out Bruce Springsteen. That's why we have jukeboxes! Let's let Bruce be Bruce.
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#17. It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.
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#18. I don't believe in karaoke. Let's let the singers sing.
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#19. I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A.
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#21. We tried to do a show once every three weeks to a month. We'd always do a new show. It was not successful. It did not become the Matt & Ben show, but it taught me what I like to do as an actor and what I like to do comedically.
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#22. I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.
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#23. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.
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#24. My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.
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#25. I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.
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#26. Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.
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#27. I try to collect money and I keep it in a special place called the bank. I collect a bunch of things called money, dollar bills, and I keep them in a safe under my bed.
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#28. I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience.
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#29. I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber.
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