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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The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
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I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
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Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.
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I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.
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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.
