Quote

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.

John Malkovich

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Malkovich
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 9
Actor
Fashion Designer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
Christopher
Illinois
John Gavin Malkovich
Take
Different
Brings
Something
Material
Would
Materials
People
Anybody
Growth
Everyone
Nature

More quotes by John Malkovich

Image
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
John Malkovich
Image
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
John Malkovich
Image
There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
John Malkovich
Image
The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
John Malkovich
Image
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
John Malkovich
Image
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
Image
I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.
John Malkovich
Image
With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.
John Malkovich
Image
Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
John Malkovich
Image
I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.
John Malkovich
Image
I'm not a control maniac.
John Malkovich
Image
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
John Malkovich
Image
It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.
John Malkovich
Image
It never occurred to me to be an actor.
John Malkovich
Image
I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.
John Malkovich
Image
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
John Malkovich
Image
The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.
John Malkovich
Image
I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.
John Malkovich
Image
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
John Malkovich
Image
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.
John Malkovich