John C. Reilly Quotes
I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.

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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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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 think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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My parents really encouraged me.
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They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica - HYPNOS.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
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We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.
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I try not to intellectualise what I do.
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I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.
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I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.
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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
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That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.