John Malkovich Quotes

I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

John Malkovich

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• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Story

• Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Why
  • Song

• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Change
  • Taste

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Change
  • Run

• We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

  

  J. T. Walsh
  • Going
  • Material
  • Metaphors

• Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Sometimes

• America should function as a Christian nation.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Christian
  • Nation

• A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Feelings
  • Gentleman

• It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Single
  • Pity
  • Collection

• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Thought
  • Anger

• I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• All creatures kill-there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Fun
  • Revenge

• The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Successful
  • Realization
  • Liberating

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Work
  • Country
  • Hurt

• I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

  

  John Malkovich