John C. Reilly

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

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

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.