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" I don't remember my life before I had children. "
John Malkovich
My Life
Life
Had
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" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "
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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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" 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 still have a temper, I suppose. "
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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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Been
" Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. "
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" Well, I like to have fun at work. "
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" I don't mind tracksuits. At the track. "
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" Utopia means elsewhere. "
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" I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit. "
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Great
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Change
Dog
Fact
" Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. "
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Women
Most
Live
" I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. "
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Myself
Fail
One Thing
" 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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People
Style
" 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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Football
Good
Great
" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
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Like
Play
Characters
" I always wanted to be fashionable. "
John Malkovich
Always
Wanted
Fashionable
" 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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Dream
Own
Acting
" Failure's a natural part of life. "
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Life
Natural
Failure
" I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is. "
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Problem
Matter
Mean
" I believe in humans. "
John Malkovich
Believe
I Believe In
I Believe
" 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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Value
Good
New York
" I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "
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Very
Typical
Think
" I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. "
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American
Time
Think
" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "
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Most
Live
" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "
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Sensible
People
" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
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Temper
Very
" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "
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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. "
John Malkovich
Pencil
Blue
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" As an actor there are no drawbacks. "
John Malkovich
Actor
Drawbacks