John C. Reilly Quotes
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
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I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.
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Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.
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I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'
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The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.
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... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
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'(infuriated)' I'M GONNA WRECK IT!
