Miles Teller

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I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Judging
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I think hopefully as you're getting older you're getting parts that require more preparation, and by that I just mean - I don't know, usually the older you get you get characters with more responsibility. Each one is different, there are certain movies that when the guy starts you pretty much come with that character on page one and then you see their growth, whereas other guys a lot has happened before that movie starts and you have to come in with something.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Character
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When I first started getting into acting, I was doing improv in acting class, and I had done a serious monologue and everyone was cracking up laughing and I went to the drama teacher and said I don't want to be the class clown anymore, I want to do serious work, too, and they loved that, and so I started mixing in drama.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Teacher
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Some girls have crazy eyes. You can spot that!
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Collection: Girl
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In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.
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Collection: Care
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I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours of boxing, 2 hours of weights, an hours of accent and dialect training, I just enjoyed having to do all that for this character [ Vinnie Paz in Bleed for This].
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Collection: Character
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I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.
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Collection: Character
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At the end of the day, it's hard to keep relationships with people. I've got my family, my best friends and if a girl's gonna be a part of that then it's got to be good. If not, I'm out.
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Collection: Girl
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Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form
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Collection: Powerful
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I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.
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Collection: Thinking
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Naked acrobatics are on my resume.
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Collection: Acrobatics
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I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do.
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Collection: Halloween
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My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.
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Collection: Senior
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I think girls are surprised when you actually really listen and then you call it back at the end of the night.
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Collection: Girl
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I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, 'Stop Working Out! Don't go outside!' He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Collection: Work Out
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Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.
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Collection: Eye
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I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.
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Collection: Beautiful
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For me, as far as friendship goes, I think you truly get out of it, what you put into it.
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Collection: Thinking
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I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had to do for a film, that was a legit like 7 months of diet and working out. And then I was able to do like an accent, I was able to change myself physically, I was able to do a lot of the things that I'd always looked at actors and admired when they did that. So I was excited to do that.
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Collection: Work Out
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I'm very proud to be part of a cast that's gonna put Hot Shots on screen for the first time, Hot Shots are the first line of defense against wildland fire and these guys are so selfless, they are guys that do what they do without wanting any kind of attention for it.
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Collection: Fire
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I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.
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Collection: House
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I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.
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Collection: Military
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I'm the type of actor that believes the director has to be in charge. I've been on sets where the actor's ego was the most important thing, and with a director that messes it up. But I don't like a dictator, I want it to be collaborative - the best idea wins. If I feel respected, and I'm going to give that back. If a director wants to try something, cool, I'll give it back. I also feel like they cast me for a reason, so I'm going to make my mark on it... let me do my thing.
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Collection: Believe
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As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Three
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I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.
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Collection: Rocks
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We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody else's hand in there?" I do bite my fingernails, and you don't want to see a fat, bitten thumbnail on a 30-foot movie screen, so I get somebody with really nice, sexy hands and put 'em in there.
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Collection: Sexy
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Just go to a bar, watch football - that's fun to me because I've not gotten to see anything because I've been travelling so much. Playing some shuffleboard and some pool and darts. I like kind of dive-y bars.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Football
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As a drummer, you can't fake the instrument. A trumpet, you could be blowing air; a person who plays the trumpet could still say, "Oh, those aren't the right hand motions." On drums, you have to actually hit them. You can't fake it.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Air
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I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Mom
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For me, the greatest kind of success that I've had on a particular project or in exploring a role does come through collaboration. I wouldn't want to do a movie where everything I do the director just says, "Good job" and I'm under directed.
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Collection: Jobs
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I start a boxing movie and that's kind of something I've been able to get to the gym for. It's great anytime you can parallel a skill that your character has. I just think it makes it even more rewarding.
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Collection: Character
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I think if anybody is making a movie about your life something pretty incredible had to happen.
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Collection: Thinking
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I'm proud of everything I've done. If it's comedy, it's 'cause I think it's funny. If it's a drama, it's impactful. I'm leaning towards dramas now because I wrapped a couple comedies in a row. I don't like watching myself, but it's easier on me when I don't have to carry a lot of the comedy. But I enjoy making comedies but dramas come more naturally.
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Collection: Couple
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I think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.
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Collection: Character
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I like girls who are cute and naturally funny. As long as they are not too high-maintenance, then we're good.
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Collection: Cute
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I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.
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Collection: School
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First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".
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Collection: Song
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Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.
- Miles Teller
Collection: Animal