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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.

John Malkovich

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John Malkovich
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 9
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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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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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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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I don't remember my life before I had children.
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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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I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
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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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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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I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I've always done that. I think either it's some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever's bothering me.
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I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.
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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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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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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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I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
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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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