John Malkovich Quotes
I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
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Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'
