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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
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I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.
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The clock ticks and time runs out. Our founding fathers wanted to make it hard to pass legislation and it is hard. It's hard to pass legislation for a reason.
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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.
