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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I'd love to do a drama.
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Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.
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I've always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don't really need much sleep at night.
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You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?
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My parents have a pawnshop in Downtown Las Vegas for quite awhile. I grew up seeing people come in and want - need - money so they could go and gamble again or so they could pay their bills or whatever reason, and try and sell items that were of value to them.
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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.
