John Malkovich Quotes

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

John Malkovich

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• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I'm so secluded. Very alone.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Alone
  • Very
  • Secluded

• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • More
  • Consciousness
  • His

• I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Away

• Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Different
  • Why
  • Better

• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • Great
  • Man

• What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Choices
  • Cost

• Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Easy
  • Fame
  • Impact

• I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Family
  • Born

• My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Place

• For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Important
  • Love
  • Universe

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Change

• In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Career
  • College
  • Kind

• I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Together
  • Working Together

• Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Job
  • Determination

• I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, 'Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?' It was an awakening. On the East Coast, I'd never even heard of conscientious objectors.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Remember
  • American

• I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally... I was always in newborn-deer mode.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Music
  • Men
  • Business

• Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Girl

• The child who hates the parent becomes rigid – unable to let in love. He is so filled with shame that he feels that he cannot take in any further shame. He protects himself by making sure he is always “right.” Such a person often becomes controlling, shaming, and/or abusive.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Love
  • Feels
  • Child

• I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

  

  John Malkovich