Jon Hamm Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I’m not gay, and I’m not a superhero.

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• I’m not a cheater. I’ve never cheated in my life.

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• I’m able to leave Don Draper at work. I’m quite dissimilar from him in real life.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Jon Hamm (12)

Birth:	10th March, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Television Producer

About

Jonathan Daniel Hamm was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an American actor and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men (also producer and directed 2 episodes, Won- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series-Drama in 2008 and 2016, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2015). His role in several films include: Space Cowboys, Kissing Jessica Stein, We Were Soldiers, The Ten, Stolen, The Town, Sucker Punch, Friends with Kids (also producer), Marjorie Prime, Baby Driver, Aardvark, Nostalgia, Beirut, Tag (upcoming film), and Bad Times at the El Royale (upcoming drama thriller film). His other role in television include: Providence (TV series), The Division (crime drama TV series), What About Brian (comedy-drama TV series), A Young Doctor's Notebook (TV series, also executive producer), Clear History (TV film), and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (TV series).

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