John C. Reilly Quotes
Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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My earliest memories are at the Blue Note here in New York or backstage at different theatres or different clubs, dressing rooms.
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What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
