John Malkovich Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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We're all animals.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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My father was a very contradictory man.
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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 can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
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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've done quite a few big American films.
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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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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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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 don't mind what I play, really.
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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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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.