Latest John C. Reilly Quotes from Interviews

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• When you're dealing with younger people, if you start acting like the leader or the expert or the elder statesman, 'well, let me tell you how this is...,' that's a great way to alienate young people and make them hate you.

  John C. Reilly

  Hate, People, Leader

  Source: www.shockya.com

• I was thinking maybe about being a lawyer. I realized I was interested in becoming a priest at one point. I was just interested in stuff where I could do something I really believed in. And then, I realized if I become an actor, I don't have to choose. I get to do everything. It's worked out so far. But what I really want to do is direct.

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

  John C. Reilly

  Bored, Would Be, Imagine

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Perspective, Kind

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

  John C. Reilly

  Who I Am, Knows

  "Interview: John C Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is everything, number one, number one.

  John C. Reilly

  Winning, Winning Is Everything

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.

  John C. Reilly

  Sports, People, Fans

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• The truth is, when you're at the track, it was an interesting thing about stock car racing as a sport, is you almost get more out of it watching it on TV.

  John C. Reilly

  Sports, Stock Car Racing, Track

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• I do a lot of improvising on movies, actually.

  John C. Reilly

  Improvising

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• I don't think I could ever stop doing serious movies and just do comedies, or vice versa, but there is something cool about going to work everyday and you're just trying to make your friends laugh. That's nice work if you can get it, you know what I mean? It's different than going to work and knowing that I've gotta slap someone in the face today, and then I've gotta cry, and someone's gonna die, I've gotta get myself to that place.

  John C. Reilly

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• Somehow that doesn't feel like a natural human thing to do, to go to those dark places, you have to kind of force yourself to do that. And comedy, it's like you're excited to get there in the morning every day.

  John C. Reilly

  Morning, Dark, Comedy

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

  John C. Reilly

  Feet, Ideas, Pressure

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.

  John C. Reilly

  Ideas, Directors

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

• A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

  John C. Reilly

  Independent, Mainstream, Critics

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think just getting a movie done is an accomplishment in itself.

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."

  John C. Reilly

  Doors, Rooms, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh."

  John C. Reilly

  Emotional, Men, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

  John C. Reilly

  People, Laughing, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The way you get through having a shitty job is to laugh a lot and goof around.

  John C. Reilly

  Jobs, Laughing, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Oftentimes, a funny situation is funny because it's uncomfortable or weird. The most memorable stories, or the stuff that you repeat to your friends, it's not like, "Oh, I had a pleasant day, nothing happened on the bus today." It's when strange things happen, when you become uncomfortable or knocked out of your own reality, those are the things that are interesting.

  John C. Reilly

  Memorable, Reality, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Life is often confusing and sad, and I'm a big fan of the slap and the tickle, as they say.

  John C. Reilly

  Confusing, Fans, Life Is

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.

  John C. Reilly

  Real, Hook, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Looks, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Trying, Committed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

  John C. Reilly

  Stupid, Comedy, Committed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com