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I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!
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 would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.
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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.
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Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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