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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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John Malkovich
#Men Quotes
#House Quotes
#Quality Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#May Quotes
#Succeed Quotes
#Moments Quotes
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“I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.”
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John Malkovich
#Inspired Quotes
#Appearance Quotes
#Bohemian Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#World Quotes
#Violence Quotes
#Threat Quotes
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“Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.”
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John Malkovich
#Fashion Quotes
#Scary Quotes
#Monsters Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Writing Quotes
#Shooting Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.”
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John Malkovich
#Ephemeral Quotes
#Theater 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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John Malkovich
#Stories Quotes
#Rehearsal Quotes
#Littles Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Baseball Quotes
#Football Quotes
#Father Quotes
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“It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH...”
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John Malkovich
#Thinking Quotes
#Mad Quotes
#People Quotes
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“My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.”
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John Malkovich
#Strong Quotes
#Father Quotes
#Influence Quotes
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“I wasn`t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.”
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John Malkovich
#Doubt Quotes
#Type Quotes
#Raised Quotes
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“I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.”
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John Malkovich
#People Quotes
#Treats Quotes
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“I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.”
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John Malkovich
#Track Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“I don't mind what I play, really.”
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John Malkovich
#Play Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Daughter Quotes
#Mother Quotes
#Sex Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Thinking Quotes
#Facts Quotes
#March Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Real Quotes
#Actors Quotes
#Might Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Europe Quotes
#America Quotes
#Different Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Dream Quotes
#Acting Quotes
#Actors Quotes
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“It never occurred to me to be an actor.”
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John Malkovich
#Actors Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Simple Quotes
#Together Quotes
#Groups Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Confidence Quotes
#Ghost Quotes
#Lacking Quotes
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“I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.”
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John Malkovich
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Care Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#School Quotes
#Design Quotes
#Costumes Quotes
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“I don't need to be liked.”
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John Malkovich
#Needs Quotes
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“I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.”
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John Malkovich
#Process Quotes
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“I don't remember my life before I had children.”
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John Malkovich
#Children Quotes
#Remember Quotes
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“I've done quite a few big American films.”
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John Malkovich
#Done Quotes
#Film Quotes
#Bigs Quotes
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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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John Malkovich
#Smart Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Limits Quotes
