John Malkovich Quotes
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I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
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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 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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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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My father was a very contradictory man.
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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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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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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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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 don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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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 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 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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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 think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
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Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
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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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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.