John Malkovich Quotes
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
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Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.
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I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
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He had a so-so game. He played adequately.... Everybody's a work in progress right now.
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
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You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
