John C. Reilly Trying Quotations

I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.

I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.