John Malkovich Quotes
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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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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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I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
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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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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
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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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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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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 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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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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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
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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 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 don't need to be liked.
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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 tracksuits. At the track.
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You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
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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 go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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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.