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I had [at school] my own littl...

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

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I would consider directing. I ...

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

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Why people pick me for the rol...

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

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Whenever I work on something, ...

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!

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When they're good, I like work...

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

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I did a movie with Leonardo Di...

I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.

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Kind of the exhausting thing a...

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

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To me, it doesn't make any sen...

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

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I actually envy actors who hav...

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.

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Actually, acting turned out to...

Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.

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Here's the thing, with comedy ...

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

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If I'm committed to something ...

If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

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I'm much more character based....

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

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I would say whisky or pills. N...

I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.

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Unless you do the same thing, ...

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think 'you do.'

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You were there all day long, 1...

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

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Actors in general are pretty g...

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

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The less people know about me ...

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

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There is something about the w...

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

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When I first joined SAG, there...

When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!'

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