John C. Reilly Quotes

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
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• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
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• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
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• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
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• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • You
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  • Just

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
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• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

  

  Orson Welles
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• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
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• We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.

  

  Mel Gibson
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• I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

  

  Lenny Kravitz
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• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
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• I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.

  

  Karl-Henrik Robert
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• I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.

  

  Nneka
  • Way
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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  

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