James Wolk

“My character on 'The Crazy Ones' is entirely different than Bob Benson. If these guys ran into each other at a bar, I don't think they'd have much to talk about. They're really different guys.”

“I learned women never want to hear they have big feet. That's no fun.”

“You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.”

“It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.”

“The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.”

“For people to keep saying, 'We want to see more of this guy, even though the shows have not always been out-of-the-box successes,' is a huge compliment to me.”

“As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!”

“By the time I got someone to take my head shot, I'd been acting for nine years!”

“I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life.”

“My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.”

“I was an emcee for bar mitzvahs from age sixteen to twenty-one.”

“The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.”

“I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy. That goes for any form of shorts, beside sports shorts, that I have to wear.”

“For 'Mad Men,' we really had to stick to the script, and you want to. It's not like you feel your hand is being forced. The words you get are the words you say.”

“I probably don't watch as much television as I should, given what I do.”

“I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.”

“Even when we see somebody incredibly evil, there's a rationalization behind what they're doing. They're at their best when they're at the moment.”

“There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.”

“In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.”

“My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.”