John Malkovich Quotes
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Sukumar comes from a very different school of working style. He never shoots with set dialogues and scenes. Most of it is improvised on the spot. He'd tell me, 'Rakul, if this is your character, how would you behave? Show me.'
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Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
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We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.
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I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?
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I regret nothing.
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I don't throw things or yell.
