John Krasinski Quotes

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

I was in my final year in college when I acted in 'Nanda Gokula.'

During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.

I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!

I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.

I never did a convention before I did 'The Hobbit.'

I didn't grow up as child actor.

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.