John Malkovich Quotes
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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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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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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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You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
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I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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We're all animals.
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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 don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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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 know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
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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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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 lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
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My father was a very contradictory man.
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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.