Jake Johnson

Always take your own path. And do what feels right for you.

I love when people on Twitter give advice.

I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

When you do a Tom Cruise movie, you don't do a Tom Cruise movie and ask a lot of questions.

Alex Kurtzman - he's one of the nicest guys.

I've been a fan of Prince my whole life.

I was an out-of-work actor for 10 years.

I think that Zoe Kazan is an unbelievable talent.

I've got a theory with each character I play. Regardless of the actions that they do, I, as Jake, have to like these people. And I have to say, 'I wouldn't mind hanging out with this guy for an hour and a half.'

When I was growing up, I used to love television. TV was everything. And it was a real connector for my family.

If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

I've been lucky enough to have a lot of romantic leads in movies and indies, and you do form a different kind of connection when you do that together as actors.

I don't really party. I'll occasionally have a drink.

If you'll see on my social media, I'm never going to get political. I do think there's something about entertainers where it's nice where you just get entertainment.

If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in 'Dead Poets Society.'

I wanted to be a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish.

There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

Bob Dylan, I'd say, is probably my favorite musician.

I think you can meet the right girl at the wrong time, and it gets screwed up. If you meet the right girl at the wrong time, that girl has to be the most understanding person in the world because there's going to be a lot more bumps in the road.

My wife doesn't drink. I don't think a girl's desire to drink or not has any effect on guys. At all.

I have a group of friends that I'm pretty sentimental about.

Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'