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" Every country has their problems. "
John Malkovich
Problems
Every
Country
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" I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously. "
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" I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere. "
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" I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it. "
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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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" I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people. "
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" I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous. "
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" Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. "
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" I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. "
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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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" I've done quite a few big American films. "
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" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "
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" 'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate. "
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" I'm an atheist. "
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" If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education. "
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Free
Education
" The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. "
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Want
" I'm more boring and more conservative. "
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More
Boring
" I still have a temper, I suppose. "
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" I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. "
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Think
Me
" I don't need to be liked. "
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Liked
" Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. "
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" I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can. "
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" I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.' "
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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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" I was never a fanatical movie person. "
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" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
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" I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. "
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" I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. "
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" I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. "
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" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "
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