John Malkovich Quotes
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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 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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Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
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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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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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We're all animals.
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My father was a very contradictory man.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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I still have a temper, I suppose.
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You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
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I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
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Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
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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 know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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I don't mind what I play, really.
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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've done quite a few big American films.
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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
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The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'
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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.