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John C. Reilly says his career feels like a constant quality‑control test, where he tries to keep the work good from start to finish. He mentions that people can’t pin him down, and that being labeled makes it hard to break out of a role. He also notes that he isn’t given jobs for his looks, but because people know he can swing between characters.

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It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

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

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I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

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If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

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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 find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

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Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

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Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

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A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea…

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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…

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When you're dealing with younger people, if you start acting like the leader or the expert or the elder statesman, 'well, let…

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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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The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh,…

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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…

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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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One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus.…

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I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also…

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In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know?…

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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.…

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It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most…

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Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are…

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Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this…

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I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that…

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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…

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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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Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors…

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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…

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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…

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My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family.…

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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…

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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…

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From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change,…

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I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that,…

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There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are…

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I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet…

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Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you…

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I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend…

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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…

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I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal.…

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A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do…

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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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A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do it again.'…

I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.

I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is everything, number…