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John Malkovich Inspirational Quotes (87)

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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 only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
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The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.
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You have to play your characters, not like them.
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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
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A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
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I don't throw things or yell.
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I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
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I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.
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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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As an actor there are no drawbacks.
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I'm not a control maniac.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.
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I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.
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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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And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.
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I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.
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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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I don't need to be liked.
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Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.
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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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If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.
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