I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

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

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

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!"

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.