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Colin Hanks

Colin Hanks on The Nick Standlea Show — 1 episode. Full conversation with episode summaries and timestamped key moments.

Oct 28, 2024 · 6 key moments

Actor and documentary filmmaker Colin Hanks sits down with longtime friend Nick Standlea for a wide-ranging conversation about…

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Colin Hanks, verbatim from the conversation.

▶0:12
“That's why I love my job. I'll be able to do it until literally I die.”
On what he wants to still be doing at the very end.
“I still audition, you know, 99% of the time.”
On being handed a role by Bob Odenkirk instead of reading for it.
▶38:33
“Every actor, every writer — within us there is this fear of, like, has my window closed? Is that all I get? Is that my shot?”
On the fear he says is baked into creative careers.
▶41:20
“It's not actually like a line… your career, your life… it actually stacks on top of each other.”
On what took him decades to understand about a career.
▶56:34
“A huge chunk of that is leaning into being incredibly uncomfortable and having self-doubt, and not being sure if it's the right thing, not being sure if it's going to work, or being intimidated. You got to lean into that.”
The lesson of his last ten years.
▶57:27
“Even just that, you got to put yourself on the line. You have to lean into that feeling of the uncomfortable. And it's not easy.”
On pitching an idea being no different from acting.
▶56:15
“You focus on all the stuff you can control, there is a form of success that you will achieve no matter what, if you execute the things you can execute.”
On separating the work from the outcome.