John Malkovich Quotes

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

John Malkovich

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• You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Start
  • React

• Everything is designed to help you sell out.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Help
  • You
  • Everything

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Work
  • You
  • Talent

• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Religion

• Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Energy

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Stronger
  • Empathy
  • Weakness

• Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.

  

  Maluma
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Sister

• In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Family
  • Drink
  • Dysfunctional

• To love another person is to see the face of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Love
  • Person

• One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Technology
  • Present
  • Path

• Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Generosity

• I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Time
  • Football

• Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

  

  Bill Rodgers

• I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Time
  • World
  • Door

• You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Good
  • Bad

• I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.

  

  John Polson
  • Job
  • Age

• We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Wall

• I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

  

  John Malkovich