John C. Reilly Quotes

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Sometimes incredible and totally incomprehensible things happen.

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along. I'm constantly changing my perspective on my own life. I see the past differently, and that's a wonderful thing.

I think people do expect something a little weird to happen. Maybe they've seen something I did once on the Internet and expect that I'm gonna do that every night.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

There's always the things that you think are going to be tough. I've been nude once, and I was like, "Oh, that's going to be a nightmare," and actually that was fine.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

What is accidented is reality.

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

You'd be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men's room. It's the most bizarre part of this entire thing.

My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.