John Malkovich Quotes
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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 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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I don't mind what I play, really.
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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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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
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Utopia means elsewhere.
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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 find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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As an actor there are no drawbacks.
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People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
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I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
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I'm not a very skeptical person.
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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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It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
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I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
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I don't throw things or yell.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
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My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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Anybody doing something brings something to it.
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Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.