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John Malkovich Inspirational Quotes (87)

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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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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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It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.
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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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Utopia means elsewhere.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.
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When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.
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I don't remember my life before I had children.
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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.
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I'm more boring and more conservative.
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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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I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.
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Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
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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'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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I still have a temper, I suppose.
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I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
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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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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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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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Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
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