John Malkovich Quotes
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.
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I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.
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When it comes down to it, I just want to work.
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I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.
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You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.
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I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
