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Miles Teller

Profession : Actor

Birth : February 20, 1987

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

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I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

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First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'

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When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.

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I was raised middle-class in a small town. I have all my same friends from high school. I'm close with my family. I'm dating a normal girl. So I want to feel people think I'm a man of the people. Because I feel that way.

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I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there's a movie where you see me on the phone, it's not my hands.

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Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.

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Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

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When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

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I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

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I've been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I'm not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.

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Respect the person you're with. My philosophy is, if I'm not happier when I'm with you, then there's no reason for me to be with you. I'm happy on my own.

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I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

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I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

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For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.

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The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn.

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Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.

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So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.

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I've always felt like I can dance.

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I used to have a big crush on Andie MacDowell.

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