Dax Shepard
Dax Shepard
Dax Randall Shepard is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He is best known for his work in the feature films Employee of the Month, Without a Paddle, Idiocracy, Let's Go to Prison, and Hit and Run, the last of which he also wrote and directed, and the MTV practical joke reality series Punk'd. He portrayed Crosby Braverman in the NBC comedy-drama series Parenthood from 2010 to 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 January 1975
CityMilford, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I was brought home to a trailer in Highland, MI.
I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.
I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.
They're making so few movies that you really just have to make it. It's going to be the only way you end up getting work. I don't believe anyone's going to really go out on a limb and just throw millions of dollars on someone that's not been proven. They're going to have to show somebody something at some point.
There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.
I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.
I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones.
I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.
I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.
You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?
I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.
I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.
But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.