John C. Reilly Quotes
I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close.
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If a young player were to ask me what to do, ... I'm not going to tell him it's bad. Look at all the money in the game: You have a chance to set your family up, to get your daughter into a better school.... So I can't say, 'Don't do it,' not when the guy next to you is as big as a house and he's going to take your job and make the money.
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I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.
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I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.
