John Malkovich Quotes
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I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.
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When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.
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Reviews are destructive by their very nature.
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I don't mind what I play, really.
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I've done quite a few big American films.
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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 never really did a western western.
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I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.
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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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It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. 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 was never a fanatical movie person.
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For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.
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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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To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.
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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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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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My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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I like very much to do movies.
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Things are so much global and Americanised.
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I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.
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The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
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Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.
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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
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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 wasn`t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
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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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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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There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.
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Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
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