I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.
John C. ReillyAn actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.
John C. ReillyI 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.
John C. ReillyImprovisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and proactive for what's going on. Someone gives you something - a lot of actors are a little shut off, so they're just doing, "This is my character, these are my lines, I'm going to just send it to you then you send whatever you're sending." Improvisation teaches you to really be listening.
John C. Reilly