Ain’t nobody like Jack Ryan: See these top 10 quotes by John Krasinki, to know him better
John Krasinki is an American actor, director, producer and a screenwriter, born on October 20, 1979, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Having been honoured by The Times Magazine, as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2018, Krasinki gained prominence as Jim Halpert, in the NBC Sitcom ‘The Office’, from 2005 to 2013.
He went ahead to write, direct as well as star in the blockbuster horror thriller movie ‘A Quiet Place’, which has been critically acclaimed. Krasinki has also served these roles in the sequel ‘A Quiet Place II’.
Checkout the star’s best sayings of all times, that tell us more about the person he is, as well as his approach towards life.
#1
“You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.”
#2
“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.”
#3
“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.”
#4
“I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters”
#5
“I’m a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I’m that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it’s not really going to make me a better reader. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.”
#6
“I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I’ve ever done.”
#7
“I know I’m guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don’t really prepare for how much work marriage really is.”
#8
“My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn’t think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.”
#9
“Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I’m going to work out to be more positive, more active. It’s proactive.”
#10
“Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.”
