John Malkovich Quotes
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I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.
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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 always wanted to be fashionable.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
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Well, I like to have fun at work.
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I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.
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'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.
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You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
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I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.
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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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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 grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
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I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it.
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I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.
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A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
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We're all animals.
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I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.
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Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
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Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.