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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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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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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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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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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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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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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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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You have to fight against being an antique.
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When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
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I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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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.
