John Malkovich Quotes

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Movement
  • Elegance
  • Posture

• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

  

  Valerie June
  • Day
  • Walking
  • Busy

• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Time
  • Children
  • Learn

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Emotional
  • Human
  • Page

• Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Life
  • May
  • Death

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Never
  • Child

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• I hope popchips will be the Vitaminwater of the snack aisle.

  

  Keith Belling
  • Hope

• I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Business
  • Learned
  • Roll

• My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the Royal Rumble. I would love to do Wrestle Mania in New Orleans, because I had so many matches there over the years working for Mid-South. I was in the ring with Muhammad Ali in the Superdome. To close it there would be great.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • Great
  • Business
  • Dream

• The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Family
  • Business

• I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Style
  • Smart
  • Humor

• I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Business
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