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Vincent Kartheiser, born on May 5, 1979, is an American actor. He gained widespread popularity for his role as Peggy Olson in the television series 'Mad Men', a performance that earned him numerous award nominations.

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“The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.”

Officials Bios

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“You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.”

People Ifs Kind Whole Hands Emotion Emotional Calm Be Kind Emotional Life Stewardess

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“Education is the number one priority.”

Numbers Priorities

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“Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.”

Faces Actors Winning Talent Right Time Right Place Lottery Winning The Lottery

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“You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Jobs Disaster Compare Recipes

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“I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.”

Actors Stupid

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“It's always nice to know people are watching and having their own ideas about things and it's nice when your audience starts trying to guess what's going to happen, it means they're really interested.”

People Knows Trying Mean Ideas Happens Audience Nice

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“I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.”

People Acting

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“I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.”

Knows Actors Study Stupid Television Don't Change

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“I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.”

Thinking Television Shifting

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“I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.”

Thinking Men Rich Mad Lots Of Money Mad Men

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“Storytelling is the important thing.”

Important Important Things Storytelling

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“I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. You know why? I felt like I was back in LA again. Four or five years ago, when I had a car and I had been out of the city I wouldn't feel I was back until I got in the car, you know. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.”

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“I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.”

Kids Nine Minneapolis

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“And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.”

Kids Actors Thirty 80s Cool Things

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“But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.”

Giving Feels Has Beens Facts Culture Process Car Selling Grids

Author:Vincent Kartheiser

“I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.”

People Littles Age Brother My Brother Village Nuts Freak Bakers Hampshire New Hampshire

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“I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.”

Might Happens Kicks

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“I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.”

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“It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead.”

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“Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.”

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About the Author

Born: May 5, 1979
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 21

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