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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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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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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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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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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In the case of man, righteousness is adjustment to God, and an articulation with man based upon that adjustment. Are you a righteous man? Am I a righteous man? Are you righteous? Then, if so, wherein does your righteousness consist? That your whole life is adjusted to God, and is moulded by that adjustment. This is righteousness.
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I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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I'm a massive control freak.
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But we're such a better team than we were last year. I believe that. We'll see if it works out that way, but I believe and I think the rest of the guys in here do, too. We all want the same thing, and that's to win that Super Bowl. And if you've got a group of guys who all want the same thing, you can do some special things.
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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.
