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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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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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 didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.
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I look forward to physical activity; it's a release from stress and a nice distraction. It puts me in a better mood. I never used to take classes before, but then I tore my plantar fascia so I couldn't run. I started taking SoulCycle classes, which I know are polarizing. People have strong opinions. Even though I can run again, I still go.
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There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
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So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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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.'
