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Josh Radnor Biography

Joshua Radnor (born July 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Ted Mosby on the popular Emmy Award-winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film Happythankyoumoreplease, for which he won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

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I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Big, Care, I Care, Reading

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

Back, College, Memories, Treasure

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Person, Persons, Violence

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

Book, Hate, Purpose, Read, Reading

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

Book, Different, Experience, Thinking, Wherever

I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!

Depressing, Nice, Stay, Thinking, Working

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

New York, Writing, People, Bracket, Socioeconomic

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

Californian, Dog, Mind, Southern

You know, I’m not saying, “Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie. ” I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, “can I not say no to it for whatever reason?”

Doe, Guy, Play, Role, Saying, Villainous

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Concerns, Existentialism, Littles, Longer, Obsessed

I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.

Chance, Groups, Large, Like, Men

I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails. " So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.

Civil, Cutting, Hands, Nails, Said, War

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

Encounter, Kindness, Matter, People, Shocks, Thinking

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

Writing, Levels, Sometimes, Level, Know

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

Sound, Directors, Thrill, Orchestra, Violin, Fuller

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Flower, Gardener, Hose, Like, Water, Weed

I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this.

Coming, Perspective, Right, Thinking, Understand, War

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script. ' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.

Conversation, Creative, Happy, Home, Writing, Yeah

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

Battle, Battles, Deal, Producer, Sometimes, Want

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

Like, Lovely, Melancholy, Relationships, Students

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