John Malkovich Quotes
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I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.
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I'm not a control maniac.
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I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
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Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.
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Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
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I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
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I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.
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It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.
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Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.
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Failure's a natural part of life.
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The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
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I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.
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Politics is not really my thing.
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Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
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I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
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I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.
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I was never a fanatical movie person.
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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
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I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.
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I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.
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I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.
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I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
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Things are so much global and Americanised.