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You have to play your characters, not like them.
John Malkovich
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John Malkovich
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 9
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I always wanted to be fashionable.
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If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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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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The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
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I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
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I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.
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I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.
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I don't need to be liked.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater 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 never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.
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I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.
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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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I'm not a control maniac.
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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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