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John Malkovich
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John Malkovich
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 9
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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 throw things or yell.
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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 was never a fanatical movie person.
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I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.
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Utopia means elsewhere.
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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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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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I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.
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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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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
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I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.
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I don't need to be liked.
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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 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.
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I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.
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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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Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's growth. Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
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