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" I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. "
John Malkovich
People
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Me
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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? "
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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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" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "
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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 don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. "
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" I don't mind tracksuits. At the track. "
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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. "
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" The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. "
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Always
" 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. "
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" I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. "
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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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Blind
" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "
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Thinking
You
Much
" I'm more boring and more conservative. "
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More
Boring
" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
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Saviour
Family
Royal
" I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves. "
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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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Real
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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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Element
Every
" I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem. "
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I Think
Think
Said
" 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
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" I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. "
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Patients
Treating
" As an actor there are no drawbacks. "
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" 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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" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "
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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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" 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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" Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. "
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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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" 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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