John C. Reilly Quotes

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

My life is an open pamphlet.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.