John Malkovich Quotes

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John Malkovich

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 9, 1953

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

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I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.

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I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

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I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

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I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

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I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

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I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

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Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

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Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

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Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

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People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

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I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

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Failure's a natural part of life.

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Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

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I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

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I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

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You have to play your characters, not like them.

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Utopia means elsewhere.

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