John Krasinski Quotes

• Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

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• I know I’m guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don’t really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

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• I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I’ve ever done.

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• I’m not trying to be the triple threat guy. I’m still working on this one threat; acting.

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• I’m a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I’m that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it’s not really going to make me a better reader. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.’

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• Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I’m going to work out to be more positive, more active. It’s proactive.

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• The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I’d be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, ‘sure!’ That was the first acting thing I did.

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• There’s the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world’s going to win out, because it’s just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.b

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• Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I’ve had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

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• You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

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• The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn’t that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat – an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

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• My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn’t think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

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• My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I’m obsessed.

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• I’m really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I’m just sort of doing projects that I’ve been finding really fun to be a part of.

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• I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I’m actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that’s really embarrassing.

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• I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

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• Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You’re constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way.

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• Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn’t know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I’m one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

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• Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they’re down, and when they’re having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

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John Krasinski (19)

Birth:	20th October, 1979
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

John Burke Krasinski was born in Massachusetts, USA. He is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He earned a BA degree in English Literature from Brown University in 2002. His role in several films include: Kinsey, Jarhead, The Holiday, License to Wed, Leatherheads, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (also director, producer, screenwriter), Away We Go, It's Complicated (Won- National Board of Review Award for Best Cast), Something Borrowed (Won- Teen Choice Awards), Big Miracle, Promised Land (Also producer, screenwriter), Aloha, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Hollars (also director, producer), Detroit, and A Quiet Place (upcoming April-2018, also director). His role in television include: The Office (Won- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series 2007, 2008).

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