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John C. Reilly Quotes

I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1965

Topics

Father Business Job School Fun Law

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

Discipline I Am People World Think

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

Good People Voice Early Down More

For the most part, it's about keeping the same people around you - people who really care about your well-being - they keep you focused.

People Care You Well-Being Focused

I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item.

Real Bucket Movie Which List Item

I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

Amanda de Cadenet

Empathy People Underdog Side Who

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

Day New York People You New Way

People who drive slow in the left lane on the highway! Are you kidding me? Don't you see everybody passing you, honking and flipping you off? It's not because everyone else is crazy, it's because you're driving slow in the fast lane, you jerk! OMG! It makes me crazy!

People Me Crazy Drive Slow Driving

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Jonathan Powell

Son Time Me Being Been Shaped

Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.

Doubt Without Guide Most Competent

The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

Purpose Doubt Confusion Dialogue Sow

The picture was of me, and I sent it.

Me Picture Sent

The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

Man World Circle Three Evolving He

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