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When he died he had the body of an 84-year-old man, but a spirit of an 11- or 12-year-old boy.


James Reilly

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JOHN C. REILLY This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even thoug...
JOHN C. REILLY The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.
CHARLES NELSON REILLY I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t...
JOHN C. REILLY Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests...
JOHN C. REILLY I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I re...
JOHN C. REILLY I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste ...
JOHN C. REILLY Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through ho...
JOHN C. REILLY Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative p...
JOHN C. REILLY For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I'd land, meet everyone, fi...
JOHN C. REILLY If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis s...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came...
JOHN C. REILLY I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. J...
JOHN C. REILLY Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. Yo...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kiddin...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to ...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY Capricorns like to stay in one place. I have to go to work in places like New York, but basically, I...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordina...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't hav...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY Everyone should have hair. When you get dressed up, you must do that last whip of hair spray, or lif...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.
CHARLES NELSON REILLY I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror ther...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. ...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.
BILL O'REILLY All the field work has been done. The board is required to present Mr. Smith with an appraisal of wh...
BOARD PRESIDENT RICHARD REILLY We have had meetings with Robert Smith and he does have reservations.
BOARD PRESIDENT RICHARD REILLY We have good news concerning our new school. We have a new drainage plan that will go through Robert...
BOARD PRESIDENT RICHARD REILLY The "new" Anglo-American feminist theory argues that too little mothering, and, in particular, the a...
ANDREA O'REILLY