John C. Reilly Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
John C. Reilly quotes and sayings page 5 (59 year old actor). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 94 we have for him.
“I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.”
“I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.”
“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 ueber-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.'”
“People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?”
“I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.”
“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!'”
“Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.”
“A script is like a theory of a movie.”
“God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.”
“Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.”
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