John Malkovich Quotes
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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 am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.
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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'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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Well, I like to have fun at work.
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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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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 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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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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We're all animals.
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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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You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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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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I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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I'm an atheist.
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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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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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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 don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
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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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I've done quite a few big American films.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.