John Malkovich Quotes
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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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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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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 can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
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We're all animals.
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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 don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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I still have a temper, I suppose.
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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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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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My father was a very contradictory man.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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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'm more boring and more conservative.
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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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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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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
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I've done quite a few big American films.
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I don't mind what I play, really.
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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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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
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I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.