John C. Reilly Quotes
I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.
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As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
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What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.
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I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.
