164 Quotes by John Krasinski

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.

Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

Family comes first for me in every single way.

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.