John Malkovich Quotes

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

John Malkovich

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• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Children
  • Start

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Feedback

• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mother
  • Speed
  • Limit

• We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Look
  • Wellbeing

• I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • You
  • Lie

• I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Why is partying and having a good time bad?

  

  Tara Reid
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • People
  • Grow
  • Projects

• Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Remember
  • History

• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Thought
  • Process

• A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Man
  • Big

• I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Self

• You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Just
  • Opening
  • Schedule

• Now I saw braves hang themselves with amulets, leave tidbits for spirits, and still take an arrow in the neck. I, worshiping nothing and bribing nothing with prayers, rode among an enemy unscathed, scything them like summer wheat.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Enemy
  • Summer

• In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Great

• In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

  

  Dennis L. McKiernan
  • Time
  • Career
  • Engineering

• I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

  

  Kim Harrison
  • Music
  • Character
  • True

• The back, it's frustrating. It's hard to figure out. You go to bed feeling good, and you wake up tight. It seems like, when you have a bad back, your whole body feels like crap.

  

  Marco Scutaro
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Philosophy
  • Sacrifice
  • Management

• Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

  

  John Malkovich