John Malkovich Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.”
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“And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'”
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“I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.”
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“The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.”
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“Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.”
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“Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.”
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“Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.”
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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 was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.”
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“It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH...”
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“My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.”
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“I wasn`t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.”
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“I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.”
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“I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.”
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“When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.”
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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 tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.”
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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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“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 wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.”
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“I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.”
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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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“I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.”
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“I don't remember my life before I had children.”
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“I've done quite a few big American films.”
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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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