John Quotes

If I'm halfway to the dream, at best, half of my resources are there. Your resources to fulfill the dream will come during the last step of the dream.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.

It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.

In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.

My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right.

I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.

The rallying call to people is to give them hope. When you have hope, that's huge.

God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

People are not going to give you a vision, but God can.

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

I did an episode of 'Frasier' with my friend Kelsey Grammer once.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

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

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

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!"

Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.

I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh."

I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is everything, number one, number one.