John Malkovich Quotes
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
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To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.
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'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.
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I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
