John Krasinski
Family comes first for me in every single way.Collection: Way
When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.Collection: Thinking
I certainly went into losing my virginity terrified. Going on stage, I could only have imagined the worst possible outcomes. And then it went fine.Collection: Outcomes
My favorite scene on the show [The Office] is on the booze cruise when I finally get to talk to her and tell her, and I react exactly how I would react by saying nothing.Collection: Office
Truly, when I say the show has given me everything, it's given me everything.Collection: Given
I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screenings...Everybody knows that's what happens in Hollywood.Collection: Special
Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.Collection: Honest
Richard Jenkins read the script [The Hollars] and really liked it, but he said, 'If you can get Margo Martindale, I'll do it. Otherwise, good luck.Collection: Good Luck
The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself.Collection: Home
I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.Collection: Kids
I think one of the coolest things for my daughters is that they'll get to see their mom being a working mom. It's one of the things I'll be most proud of.Collection: Mom
To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.Collection: Television
All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.Collection: Father
I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to.Collection: Sap
I forget who said it, but someone said, your job as an actor is to communicate the most honest version of this character, and so the parts of you that you can use are obviously the easiest to access, because you live through them every day.Collection: Jobs
The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.Collection: School
There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.Collection: Emotional
A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.Collection: People
It's a great wake-up call for our entire industry: What movies are we making? What storytellers are we allowing to tell the stories? What people are we allowing to be cast in those stories? I think we need newer stories, and more people given the opportunity to do anything they want.Collection: Opportunity
I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.Collection: Special
I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.Collection: Writing
You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.Collection: Nice
You can make jokes but [ George Clooney] is everything that anyone's ever said about him.Collection: Said
Working with Robin Williams, what can you say? He's the best of the best. What I really liked watching was, not only is he incredible funny, probably the funniest person on Earth which is a tough award to give out, but to see what it really takes to be a huge star is way beyond a good partner being extremely funny.Collection: Stars
James Cagney as a baby is not my ideal thing.Collection: Baby
As far as Ken Kwapis saying all those things, I think he just really wanted me in the movie so he probably told Warner Brothers, 'Don't worry, Jimmy Stewart? Gary Cooper? Who else do you like?' If they'd said they were huge Chris Farley fans, he's like, 'He can do that, too. He's a huge physical comedian.' But no, that's really nice to hear.Collection: Brother
The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.Collection: Firsts
The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.Collection: Emotional
I think we owe absolutely everything to the fans.Collection: Thinking
Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.Collection: Powerful
I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Book
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 embarrassingCollection: Fun
I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.Collection: Fun
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 charactersCollection: Jobs
I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the idea that we're married to overshadow the project itself.We're just looking for something that's so specific and good that it becomes a part of the story of why we did it rather than when we go to do press it's, 'Oh, my God, you're married and that's the only thing we want to talk about.' If we can merge both, that could be great.Collection: Thinking
Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].Collection: Real
To be that big of a star and that grounded and that classy, I'm mean [ George Clooney] was a true mentor for me and, as a director, he's incredible.Collection: Stars
[George Clooney] knows exactly what he wants and so he knows that you've done a good job before you do.Collection: Jobs
After three takes, [George Clooney] is like, 'We got it,' and I'm still thinking, 'I'm just getting used to this. I shouldn't have done it in a Russian accent.' No, he's great. He's a good guy.Collection: Thinking
[The Office] is incredible. It's slightly overwhelming because you don't think that anything you do....having anybody enjoy what you do is such a treat and so I know I've said this a hundred times but we owe it all to our writers.Collection: Thinking
We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].Collection: Office
We were looking to collaborate with someone on both those fronts [ writing and directing] and it ended up just being me [in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. So, at this point, it's the epitome of a passion project and I just hope people like it.Collection: Passion
I love this script [The Hollars] because I'm lucky enough to come from a really tightknit family.Collection: Lucky
I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.Collection: Kids
That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.Collection: Directors
I'm happy to announce to the world that I'm a crier. It doesn't take a lot for me to cry at stuff.Collection: World
Ninety percent of your job is done if you find the right cast.Collection: Done
To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars, because as you can see, they're very intimate, very intense scenes. You don't want to break the actor's character and you don't want to break their momentum, so as the actor, I tried not to call cut as much as I could, and almost make it feel like a play, just set this environment where these amazing actors could do what they wanted to do.Collection: Character