Quotes from John Krasinski

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

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.

I've never been someone who dates all that much - I'm more of a serial monogamist.

When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.

Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.

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.

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.

I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

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.

I went to Dave Eggers with this idea of doing a movie about a guy going through some sort of Frank Capra-esque journey.

I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

'The Office' is not one of those things you move away from. I don't want it to go away.

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.