John C. Reilly Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
-
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
-
There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
-
If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
-
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
-
If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
-
I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
-
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
-
I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.
-
I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
-
Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
-
It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
-
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
-
I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
-
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
-
For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.
-
I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
-
The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
-
I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.
-
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
-
Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.
-
I get to stay active and that is my job at the moment, so I can't complain.
-
Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.
-
Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!
