John Malkovich Quotes

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John Malkovich

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 9, 1953

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

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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?

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Every country has their problems.

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You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

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Anybody doing something brings something to it.

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It never occurred to me to be an actor.

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I was never a fanatical movie person.

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Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

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I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

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I don't need to be liked.

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I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.

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I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

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I don't remember my life before I had children.

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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'm more boring and more conservative.

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I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

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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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