Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm
Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Hamm is an American actor, director, and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper in the AMC drama series, Mad Men...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth10 March 1971
CountryUnited States of America
teacher thinking acting
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
powerful book kids
Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.
roles film calculus
I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.
beautiful kids creative
I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.
ebb-and-flow people facts
It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.
dog years golden
I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.
kids littles stuff
When I was a little kid, I kind of liked the commercials more than a lot of the stuff on TV. My favorite ones were the Miller Lite ads with all the jocks in them. "Tastes great, less filling."
kids people different
People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you're out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don't really relate to.
nice light watches
It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"
moving lasts episodes
Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.