John C. Reilly Quotes - Page 2

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• When they're good, I like working with new actors.

  John C. Reilly

  Actors

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• This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Bags, Actors

  "John C. Reilly, with Jake Kasdan". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 25, 2007.

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• Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Games

  "Interview: John C. Reilly on his animated anti-hero "Wreck-It Ralph". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 31, 2012.

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• There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

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  Small Numbers, Groups, Lucky

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• There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

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  People, Levels, Way

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Memorable, Reality, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

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  Fans, Potters, Harry Potter Movie

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• Improvisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and proactive for what's going on. Someone gives you something - a lot of actors are a little shut off, so they're just doing, "This is my character, these are my lines, I'm going to just send it to you then you send whatever you're sending." Improvisation teaches you to really be listening.

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  Character, Giving, Listening

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

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  School, Swings, Dragons

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• I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

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  Trying, Use, Littles

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• I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

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  Kids, Thinking, Games

  "John C. Reilly for “Criminal”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 7, 2004.

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• Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

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  Keys, Careers, People

  "John C. Reilly: Confessions of a scene-stealer" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

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  Names, People, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

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  Fun, Thinking, People

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

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  Character, Reality, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

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  Bored, Would Be, Imagine

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

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. Just don't take the part if you feel like it's a stereotypical part for you. You have control over your life. We don't have the old studio system, where you have to do what they tell you.

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  Over You, Complaining, Actors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2004.

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• I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.

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  Brain, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

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  Artist, People, Bullshit

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

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  Unique, Sea, Water

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• It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

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  People, Mystery, Certain

  "John C. Reilly Explains It All". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 06, 2014.

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• I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

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  Drama, Thinking, Joy

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• Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!

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  Looks, Ifs

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• I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

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  Crazy, People, World

  Source: www.gq.com

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