John Malkovich Quotes
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.
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Now, when building a show, I ask myself the question - like, 'Jumping off this table will be really cool, but can I do that eight times a week?'.
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It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.
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I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.
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If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
