John C. Reilly Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

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• I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

  John C. Reilly

  Hollywood, Actors, Stuff

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• I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Want, Way

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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.

  John C. Reilly

  Crazy, People, World

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Thinking, Joy

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• Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. 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

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2010.

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

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Reality, People

  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.

  John C. Reilly

  Artist, People, Bullshit

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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.

  John C. Reilly

  Brain, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

  John C. Reilly

  Real, Character, Touching

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• [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

  John C. Reilly

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

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• I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

  John C. Reilly

  Lonely, School, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If you get made fun for the way you look, then maybe wearing the same thing every day is the best way to protect yourself.

  John C. Reilly

  Fun, Looks, Way

  Source: collider.com

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

  John C. Reilly

  Looks, Ifs

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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.

  John C. Reilly

  Unique, Sea, Water

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• That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.

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  People, Actors, Sometimes

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• The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.

  John C. Reilly

  Bars, Lasts, Remember

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• The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.

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  Character, Interesting, Good Movie

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• Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

  John C. Reilly

  Idols, People, Giving

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. June 16, 2010.

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• This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

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  Summer, Drama, Real

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• Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Men, Should Have

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

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• When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, "Hey you, Step Brother!"

  John C. Reilly

  Brother, Growing Up, Dad

  "Will the Real John C. Reilly Please Stand Up?". Interview with David Katz, www.esquire.com. July 6, 2010.

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• One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Lucky, Olympus

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

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• You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

  John C. Reilly

  Long, Hollywood, Kind

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• I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.

  John C. Reilly

  Football, Team, School

  Source: collider.com

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