John Malkovich Quotes
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I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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I've done quite a few big American films.
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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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I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
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Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
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I'm an atheist.
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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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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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I still have a temper, I suppose.
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
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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 believe in humans.
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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 care what other people think. I don't think it matters.
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We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
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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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The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
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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'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.
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I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.
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If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.