Latest John Krasinski Quotes from Interviews

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• The only reason I acted in school was because of the community. I was in the chorus of every play and was never the lead other than one time, but to me it was about the community. I was an English major and my whole goal was to be an English teacher and was lucky enough to get into the playwriting group. The whole experience I had at Brown was eye opening and the most mind-bending experience.

  John Krasinski

  Teacher, Eye, School

  Source: www.lasplash.com

• There are always roles that seem enticing that you can't do because of scheduling.

  John Krasinski

  Enticing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  World, Cry

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  Character, Cutting, Environment

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

  John Krasinski

  Dad, Kids, Existential

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• The idea of family is really one of the only things we can all say we have and we can't run away from. Whether you like your family or not. Whether it's complicated or not, there's something - call it spiritual, call it existential, whatever - that's in you.

  John Krasinski

  Running, Spiritual, Complicated

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• My favorite thing is watching people watch The Hollars movie and then come up to me and say whether they went through an experience like that or they went through an experience nothing like that, but it still was their mom or "that was my brother" or whatever it was - that's great.

  John Krasinski

  Mom, Brother, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Ninety percent of your job is done if you find the right cast.

  John Krasinski

  Done

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Let's be honest, you and I have probably seen a whole lot of family films - you have to do something special. Jim Strouse has the ability to write this hairpin turn between emotion and comedy that is very real. In real life, you don't have time to prepare for the bad stuff and you don't have time to prepare for the good stuff, it just sort of happens.

  John Krasinski

  Real, Writing, Special

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I don't think I've ever signed onto anything as quickly as I did The Hollars, because I come from a really loving, well-connected family, where we see each other all the time. And when I was done with this script, I was like, "Oh my god, that's my family!" This is obviously a very dysfunctional family, but there was something about it that was sort of universal. And I think that in this day and age in today's world - there's a lot of drama out there. It's nice to tell stories about things as simple and powerful as family.

  John Krasinski

  Powerful, Nice, Drama

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  Powerful, War, Imagination

• I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

  John Krasinski

  Daughter, Giving, Understanding

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  Outcomes, Losing, Stage

  Source: www.elle.com

• One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

  John Krasinski

  Lessons, Life Is, Anticipate

  Source: www.elle.com

• I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

  John Krasinski

  Boston, Catholic, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

• I have no problem with people seeing me as the nice guy. I hope they don't see me as just the nice guy.

  John Krasinski

  Nice, People, Guy

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  Office, Saying Nothing, My Favorite

• 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].

  John Krasinski

  Real, Thinking, Keys

  "John Krasinski and Mandy Moore Contemplate Marriage in License to Wed". Interview With Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 2, 2007.

• I love to have the people watching [The Office ] just because it's fun to have people watching, but our fans are so dedicated, so smart and so cool for the most part. We don't have these fans that overwhelm you if they see you on the street. They're like, 'Love the show', or 'What an idiot. You should have said something to her last week.' I'm like, 'I know.'

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Smart, Should Have

• We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

  John Krasinski

  Office

• [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.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, Office, Incredibles

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, Guy, Done

• [George Clooney] knows exactly what he wants and so he knows that you've done a good job before you do.

  John Krasinski

  Jobs, Want, Done

• 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.

  John Krasinski

  Stars, Mean, Mentor

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.