Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years. "
John Malkovich
Because
Wake Up
Years
Related Quotes:
" I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. "
John Malkovich
Type
Really
Raised
" Utopia means elsewhere. "
John Malkovich
Means
Elsewhere
Utopia
" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "
John Malkovich
Mean
Buildings
Build
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Dream
Own
Acting
" I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. "
John Malkovich
Any
Hate
See
" We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. "
John Malkovich
Great
Doing
World
" 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
Black
" Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. "
John Malkovich
Matters
You
Nothing
" I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. "
John Malkovich
Good
Football
Kid
" I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. "
John Malkovich
Things
Like
Perfect
" 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?' "
John Malkovich
Me
Most
Live
" When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. "
John Malkovich
Looking
Play
You
" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
John Malkovich
Very
Skeptical
Person
" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "
John Malkovich
Goes
Process
Go
" It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. "
John Malkovich
Others
Me
Able
" Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself. "
John Malkovich
You
Yourself
Too
" I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover. "
John Malkovich
Travel
Without
Little
" 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. "
John Malkovich
California
Think
Ocean
" It never occurred to me to be an actor. "
John Malkovich
Never
Actor
Occurred
" 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. "
John Malkovich
American
Time
Think
" I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. "
John Malkovich
Confidence
Myself
You
" I always wanted to be fashionable. "
John Malkovich
Always
Wanted
Fashionable
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Football
Good
Great
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Era
Clothes
Watch
" Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway. "
John Malkovich
People
Even
Most
" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
John Malkovich
Saviour
Family
Royal
" I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. "
John Malkovich
Find
Element
Every
" 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. "
John Malkovich
History
You
Think
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Me
Design
School
" I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education. "
John Malkovich
Part
Education
Clothes