John C. Reilly Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
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You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
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Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.
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A script is like a theory of a movie.
