John Malkovich Quotes
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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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I've done quite a few big American films.
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My father was a very contradictory man.
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You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
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Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
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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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I still have a temper, I suppose.
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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'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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The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
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I believe in humans.
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
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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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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 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 don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.
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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 mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
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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 mind what I play, really.
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Utopia means elsewhere.
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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 more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.