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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.

John C. Reilly

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John C. Reilly
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 24
Actor
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Chicago
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John Christopher Reilly
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