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Adam Pally

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 18, 1982

Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.

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If you're a suburban kid, and you're 30 minutes from New York City, that's the luckiest thing in the world.

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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.

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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

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I would like to work with challenging material. A challenge is good. If it's good material; it's a challenge.

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Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'

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I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

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'The Mindy Project' was an amazing experience. I appreciated the way they treated me from day one, and the send-off was perfect, I thought.

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I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time.

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My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.

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Growing up in Livingston, New Jersey, was terrific.

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I think it's important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It's been great in its aspirations.

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I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.

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I loved my time on 'The Mindy Project' so much. It was only supposed to be half a year. It was really only supposed to be one episode, and then it became three episodes, and then it became half a year, and then it became a year and a half, and then it became two years.

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My wife is an amazing mother - like, top five of all time.

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My heroes were Gene Wilder, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.

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I play guitar, and I'm a decent basketball player - people like to play on my team.

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I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head.

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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.

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