For some reason surfing… I’m not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn’t seem as great to me. – John Slattery
I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis. – John Slattery
You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn’t mean people are gonna go see it. It’s been proven time and time again. – John Slattery
I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It’s really risky. – John Slattery
You learn pretty quickly: if you fall in love with your edit, you’re bound to be heartbroken because it will all be re-cut. – John Slattery
When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino – they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out. – John Slattery
I’ve done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You’re young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job. – John Slattery
I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, ‘Where is the soul in advertising?’ – John Slattery
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered. – John Slattery
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that’s often why they don’t match when we’ve shared the same experiences with someone. – John Slattery
I’ve never directed anything before ‘Mad Men,’ so I don’t feel I have any advice for the other directors. – John Slattery
I’ve dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn’t make me look that much younger. – John Slattery
On ‘Mad Men,’ I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who’s best at the beginning. – John Slattery
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don’t have that option. – John Slattery
Characters can become boring. That’s what’s tricky about television. It goes on and on – you’re playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene. – John Slattery
Let’s face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk. – John Slattery
I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. – John Slattery
