John Malkovich Quotes
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I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.
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I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.
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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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Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
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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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I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
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I'm an atheist.
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Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
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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 always wanted to be fashionable.
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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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Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
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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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Well, I like to have fun at work.
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You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
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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 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 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 know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
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I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.