John Malkovich Quotes
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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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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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My father was a very contradictory man.
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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
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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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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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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
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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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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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You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
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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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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 mind what I play, really.
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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've done quite a few big American films.
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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 don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way.
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We're all animals.
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You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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I don't need to be liked.
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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.