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Jake M Johnson Quotes

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I never thought I’d be one of those guys who gets recognized  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I like dogs, but I have more respect for cats  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you’re getting really big laughs. I don’t necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. ‘Caddyshack’ is amazing, but there’s not a lot of new ‘Caddyshack’s  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) It’s a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I try to collect money and I keep it in a special place called the bank. I collect a bunch of things called money, dollar bills, and I keep them in a safe under my bed.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn’t teach seniors because they’d be smarter than me.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) If I’m in a bar and I gotta be sitting next to some clown who’s like, It’s my tune, I don’t want to hear you belt out Bruce Springsteen. That’s why we have jukeboxes! Let’s let Bruce be Bruce.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I’ve always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber.  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) We didn’t make money but we never lost money. We’d sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get people to come. Now you’d just tweet it, but that was the beginning of emails, or the beginning of me doing emails - I’m sure there were people in 1986 who were doing emails  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn’t have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I’m pretty happy doing it as an actor  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) You know, I’ll tell you, nothing changed after ‘No Strings’ for me. A lot of people said, like, ‘Your game will be different,’ but it wasn’t. It really wasn’t  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called ‘Paper Heart’ and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called ‘Ceremony’ because she knew Max Winkler and said, ‘I want you to be in ‘No Strings Attached,’ but you gotta audition for it.’ From that it was easier for her to get me in ‘New Girl  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for ‘SNL’ when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I’m going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you’re getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and the show ‘The Unit.’ Got a little part in the movie ‘Redbelt’ by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn’t grow up when he was - I was born in 78 - the reruns of Belushi in ‘Animal House,’ and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I’ll be honest, I like shooting ‘New Girl.’ I like the people. The show is still new to me. I’ve never done TV like this before  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I was really into classifieds for awhile. I’m a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it’s just in my blood  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) It’s a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn’t like it as much when I wasn’t able to control it  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) My brother was an improviser. He’s now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage  (Jake M Johnson Quotes) I’m a grinding actor. That’s how I’ve always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next  (Jake M Johnson Quotes)