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

• 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

• 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

• A veces creo el mal es todo y que el bien es sólo un bello deseo del mal.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Real
  • Meaningful

• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• I'm very happy that I've had a partner of 38 years, and I feel very blessed. And, what can I tell you, I'm just very happy.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • Happy
  • Blessed
  • Partner

• Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

  

  Daniel Pinkwater
  • Fun

• Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.

  

  Young Thug
  • Remember
  • You
  • Just Do It

• Hunts differ in flavor, but the reasons are subtle. The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody’s nose.

  

  Aldo Leopold

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

  

  John Malkovich