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" I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors. "

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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? "

John Malkovich

Life

Real Life

Real

" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "

" The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. "

" Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway. "

" Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. "

" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "

" I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. "

" 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. "

" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "

" There's a reason screens are only this thick. "

" 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. "

" You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. "

" 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.' "

" I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. "

John Malkovich

Talking

Direct

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

" 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

Design

School

" I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "

" 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. "

" I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. "

" I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. "

John Malkovich

Details

" I believe in humans. "

" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "

" I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. "

" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "

John Malkovich

Goes

Process

" I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. "

" Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "