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Colin Hanks

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Colin Hanks, born on November 24, 1977, is an American actor known for his versatile performances in both film and television. He gained recognition for his roles in the 'Home Alone' series and the 'Night at the Museum' series. Hanks has a knack for comedy, but he is also capable of delivering heartfelt performances in dramatic roles.

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“Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.”

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“I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.”

Thinking Knows Needs Should Secret Know How Knowing Fine Taste Ingredients Not Knowing Coca Cola Kept Secrets

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“No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.”

People Doe Stills Matter School Social Break High School Where You Are Breaking Down Dynamics Clique Ambivalent

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“But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.”

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“I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'”

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“I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.”

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“I've always really been a fan of scenes in which you're able to be as natural as you want.”

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“You learn stuff from your kids, every day.”

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“I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.”

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“I love Calgary. It's a great city. I enjoyed my time there, quite a bit. Shooting and filming in that cold could be very difficult, at times. When you're shooting nights, and it's 3 in the morning and minus 35 degrees, that's hard to work in.”

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“Sometimes you have to play like it's a little bit warmer, which is hard when you can't feel your face. You just try and do the best you can and make sure that you become really good friends with wardrobe, so that they give you all sorts of hand warmers and body warmers.”

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“I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.”

Knows Trying Bigs Roles Laughing Comedy Fans Insert Sketch Comedy

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“I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny.”

Bigs Chance Comedy Nerd

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“There are people that have only seen me in dramatic stuff and they go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do comedy," and then there are comedy people that go, "Oh, I didn't know you could do drama." I want to try to do both.”

People Knows Want Trying Stuff Comedy Drama Dramatic

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“I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.”

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“There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.”

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“Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.”

People Film Order Medication

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“The only entry level position on a movie is director.”

Levels Position Directors Entry

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“You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.”

Film Space Riding Motorcycle Intoxicated Motorcycle Riding

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“I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.”

Actors Process Grew Grew Up My Friends

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“I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.”

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“I never had any idea that I would have a career quite honestly. You never really have any idea what is going to happen. You have an idea of what you would like to happen.”

Ideas Happens Careers Honestly

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“If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.”

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“If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice.”

Ifs Years Would Be Nice Months If I Could Being Nice Employed Unemployed

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“Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Two Important First Time Scripts Honestly

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“Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You've just got to try and find the thing that's most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it's different every time.”

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“I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.”

Knows Mean Answers Thousand

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“I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.”

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“There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.”

People Firsts Made Interest Decision Bases Theme

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“I'm always constantly trying to find stuff that's different. It's a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work.”

Way Trying Different Stuff Excited Toes

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“I always want to be able to be in a room where I know I'm going to be entertained and challenged.”

Knows Want Able Rooms

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“I'm always amazed that anyone is paying attention to anything that I do, you know what I mean? I feel like I'm constantly having conversations with people where they're saying, "I didn't know that you could be serious," and then other people are saying, "Oh, I didn't know that you could do comedy." And so I don't know if it really helped too much with this. I like to think that it does.”

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“I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.”

People Trying Looks Mother Actors Daughter Spectrum Scenarios Our Daughter

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“Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!”

Ifs Knows Honest Industry Collapse Music Industry Movie Industry

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“I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.”

Want Wells Might Names Type Birth Sticks Come Up Generic Bravo

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“I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.”

Knows Needs Order Watches Late Come Up Excuse

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“When I was younger it was, you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.”

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“My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.”

Made Wanted Father Decision Dad My Dad Supportive

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“I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.”

Ifs Littles Hard Would Be Father Bits Acting Needed Dad Periods Little Bit My Dad

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“Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.”

Mind Bigs School Actors Father Huge Dad High School My Dad Starting Halfway Renaissance Mega

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“A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.”

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“I did plays in grade school.”

Play School Grades Grades In School

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“I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.”

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“I think Robitussin is way underrated.”

Thinking Way Underrated

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“I was in two very horrible bands.”

Two Band Horrible

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“I'm the quiet bass player.”

Player Quiet Bass Bass Players

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“To be quite honest, I'm not religious.”

Religious Honest

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“When it comes down to it, I just want to work.”

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“Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.”

Ifs Knows Different Used Gone Involved Direct Theater Good Things Come Up Video Eras

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“I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.”

Way Feels Planets Familiar Fascinated 1960s

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About the Author

Born: November 24, 1977
Known for: Actor
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