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!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• 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.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Friends

• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Children
  • Love

• I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • See
  • England
  • Wreck

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• 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.

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Why
  • Guy

• I want to be an activist professor.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Want
  • Activist
  • Professor

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• 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.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • Love
  • True

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• 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.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • World
  • Live
  • Feeling

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• The success of 'Dhruva' has given me more satisfaction than any of my previous hits, simply because the audience accepted the film even though it was experimental. I really hope this kind of acceptance makes experimental cinema the new mainstream cinema.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Acceptance

• During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can't always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Silly

• A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Home
  • Help
  • Reading

• Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Daughter

• Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

  

  John C. Reilly
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