John Slattery : (3) " Characters can become boring. That’s what’s tricky about television. It goes on and on – you’re playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene. " - John Slattery " When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino – they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out. " - John Slattery " Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that’s often why they don’t match when we’ve shared the same experiences with someone. " - John Slattery