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" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
John Malkovich
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" I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. "
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" Failure's a natural part of life. "
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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'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "
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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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" It never occurred to me to be an actor. "
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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'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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" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "
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" I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education. "
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" I'm not a control maniac. "
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" My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. "
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" Every country has their problems. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott. "
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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 don't remember my life before I had children. "
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" I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. "
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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 always wanted to be fashionable. "
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