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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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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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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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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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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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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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 generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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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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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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The greatest thing I can remember in my whole career was the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey clowns asking me to appear with them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965.
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Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
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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.'
