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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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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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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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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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 get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.
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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
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The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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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.
