John Malkovich Quotes
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I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.
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I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.
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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 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 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 more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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I'm not a very skeptical person.
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I don't mind what I play, really.
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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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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
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Utopia means elsewhere.
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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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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 can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
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As an actor there are no drawbacks.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
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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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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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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 can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
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Anybody doing something brings something to it.
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I don't throw things or yell.
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Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.