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Today’s quote is from John Christopher Reilly, born today in 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. Reilly is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician, and producer. After his film debut in Casualties of War (1989), he gained exposure through his supporting roles in Days of Thunder (1990), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and The River Wild (1994). He also starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s films Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), as well as Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998). For his performance in Chicago (2002), Reilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He worked with director Martin Scorsese on both Gangs of New York (2002) and The Aviator (2004).
In 2007, he starred in the comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, garnering him a Grammy Award nomination and a second Golden Globe Award nomination for the song performed in the film, “Walk Hard”. Reilly starred with Will Ferrell in the Adam McKay-directed comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) and Step Brothers (2008). He voiced the title character in the commercially successful Wreck It Ralph film series (2012–2018), and appeared in the superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), as well as Kong: Skull Island (2017). Reilly continued to act in independent films such as Cyrus, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Carnage (all in 2011), as well as Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster (2015), and The Sisters Brothers (2018). In 2018 he starred as the comedian Oliver Hardy in the biopic Stan and Ollie. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination as well as a Critics’ Choice Award nomination. In 2020, he created and starred in a Showtime comedy series Moonbase 8. In 2022, he led an ensemble cast for the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
“Acting’s all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn’t attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.”
Quick Take – Confidence in all you do, whether it is genuine or learned, is key to becoming influential.
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Other Birthdays Today –
15 BC Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander, born in Roma, Italia, Roman Empire (d. 19)
1544 William Gilbert, English physician and physicist (researcher into magnetism), born in Colchester, England (d. 1603)
1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1736)
1819 Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland (1837-1901), born in London (d. 1901)
1938 Thomas “Tommy” Chong, Canadian-American comedian, actor, and cannabis rights activist (Cheech & Chong), born in Edmonton, Alberta
1941 Bob Dylan [Robert Zimmerman], American singer-songwriter (“Blowin’ In The Wind”; “The Times They Are A-Changin’”; “Positively Fourth Street”) and cultural icon, born in Duluth, Minnesota
1945 Priscilla Presley, American actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun), born in Brooklyn, New York
1965 John C. Reilly, American actor (Chicago, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), born in Chicago, Illinois
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