John Malkovich Quotes
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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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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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I'm an atheist.
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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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Things are so much global and Americanised.
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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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I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
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Well, I like to have fun at work.
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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 not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
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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 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 always wanted to be fashionable.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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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 still have a temper, I suppose.
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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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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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My father was a very contradictory man.
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I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
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I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
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I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.