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I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.
John Malkovich
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John Malkovich
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 9
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More quotes by John Malkovich
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.
John Malkovich
Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
John Malkovich
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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You have to play your characters, not like them.
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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.
John Malkovich
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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There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
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I always wanted to be fashionable.
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Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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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?
John Malkovich
You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
John Malkovich
I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I don't have time to go to the movies very much. I work a lot of different things, I'm always busy. But I'm always happy to see a popular movie.
John Malkovich
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.
John Malkovich
Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.
John Malkovich
I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
John Malkovich
You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.
John Malkovich
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
John Malkovich
