John Malkovich Quotes

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

John Malkovich

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Live
  • End
  • Walk

• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Man

• Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Trying
  • Big
  • Well

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moment

• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Present
  • Confidence
  • Enjoy

• As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Trying
  • Need
  • Far

• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Water
  • Never
  • Baby

• We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Everybody

• But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Canvas

• A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Trying
  • Internet
  • Battle

• I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Kind
  • Poet

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Him

• You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Crazy

• When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don’t have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Black
  • Artists
  • Latin

• A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Education

• We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Up

• There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Pain
  • Feelings
  • Tears

• I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Trying
  • Confidence
  • Crush