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" I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people. "
John Malkovich
Life
My Life
People
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" 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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" 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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" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "
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" I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. "
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" 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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" 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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" I'm an atheist. "
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