John C. Reilly Quotes
Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.
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About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.
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All I ever wanted to do was make things. My whole life has been a constant evolution on that theme.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
