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An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.
John C. Reilly
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John C. Reilly
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 24
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John Christopher Reilly
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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.
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Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think you do.
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Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!
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I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.
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Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.
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A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.
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For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.
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I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.
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I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
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Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.
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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?
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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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God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.
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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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I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.
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I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.
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I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.
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I like working with people I know. It saves a lot of awkward conversations and getting-to-know-you kinda moments. You trust the people if you know them.
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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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