John Malkovich Quotes
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
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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've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.
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With women the heart argues, not the mind.
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When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
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You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
