
Top 37 Jon Hamm Quotes
#1. I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.
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#2. I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.
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#3. Point me to 50 people online who think I'm super sexy. I'll point you to 50 more who say he's old and looks like my dad.
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#4. When I was a little kid, I kind of liked the commercials more than a lot of the stuff on TV. My favorite ones were the Miller Lite ads with all the jocks in them. "Tastes great, less filling."
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#5. Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.
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#6. I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.
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#7. I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.
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#8. I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.
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#9. Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
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#10. For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
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#11. I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life.
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#12. I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.
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#13. Part of being an adult is treating women like women.
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#14. I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just ... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
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#15. It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.
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#16. Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.
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#17. It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"
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#18. I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.
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#19. I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.
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#20. Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.
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#21. I don't need to be married, but I feel married.
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#22. It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.
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#23. People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male
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#24. I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
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#25. I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.
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#26. The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.
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#27. I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.
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#28. I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.
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#29. I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.
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#30. I think pets are great. They're better than kids, that's for sure.
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#31. I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.
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#32. I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
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#33. It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.
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#34. Happiness... is freedom from fear.
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#35. People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.
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#36. I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.
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#37. It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard to come to the end of things, but I think when it is done right, it is a very satisfying way to appreciate something.
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