Jake M. Johnson

I don't believe in karaoke. Let's let the singers sing.

— Jake M. Johnson

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and…

— Jake M. Johnson

Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

— Jake M. Johnson

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

— Jake M. Johnson

I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber.

— Jake M. Johnson

The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I…

— Jake M. Johnson

I never thought I'd be one of those guys who gets recognized.

— Jake M. Johnson

If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in…

— Jake M. Johnson

Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear…

— Jake M. Johnson

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You…

— Jake M. Johnson

I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought…

— Jake M. Johnson

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

— Jake M. Johnson

I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we…

— Jake M. Johnson

There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and…

— Jake M. Johnson

We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try…

— Jake M. Johnson

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

— Jake M. Johnson

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the…

— Jake M. Johnson

There is always going to something very grounded about the characters I play, because of my Chicago roots, because the city is…

— Jake M. Johnson

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as…

— Jake M. Johnson

We tried to do a show once every three weeks to a month. We'd always do a new show. It was not…

— Jake M. Johnson

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

— Jake M. Johnson

I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

— Jake M. Johnson

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

— Jake M. Johnson

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write…

— Jake M. Johnson

I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because…

— Jake M. Johnson