John C. Reilly Quotes

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

When I think about the stuff I've turned down or the stuff I wasn't interested in, I don't have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things?

I think if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.

It's one of those things: I'm never gonna get over not fighting, I don't think, but I'm content with my decision to retire.

I have always wanted to play for Aston Villa, so I am not going to sit there and think, 'I could have been there,' or whatever. The grass isn't always greener.

I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.

I feel like I turned down a lot of things that I wish I hadn't. But you never know when you're younger. I don't have regrets about certain things I turned down. Those films would have required things of me that would have been challenging, and they ended up being really good movies. But I was never a careerist, I never thought in those terms. I'd be like, "Oh, I'm tired. I don't want to work."

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more --