Josh Radnor
Josh Radnor
Joshua Thomas "Josh" Radnoris an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. 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. In 2012, he wrote, directed and starred in his second film, Liberal Arts, which premiered at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 July 1974
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.
It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.
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!
We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.
I love watching all sorts of different types of movies, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily movies I want to be making. I'm not sitting around saying, "Man, I'd really love to direct a western." That's just not something I'm probably going to do. But, I'm just looking to work on things that both feel professionally exciting and personally relevant.
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.
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.
Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.