John Malkovich Quotes
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
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My father was a very contradictory man.
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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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You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
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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 still have a temper, I suppose.
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I've done quite a few big American films.
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Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
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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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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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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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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 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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The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
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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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I believe in humans.
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If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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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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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 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.
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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.