John C. Reilly Quotes

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

Popularity means people think they know you.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.