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" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "
John Malkovich
Thinking
You
Much
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" I'm an atheist. "
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" 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
" I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. "
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Good
Football
Kid
" 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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Life
Real Life
Real
" I don't mind tracksuits. At the track. "
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Mind
Track
" I like very much to do movies. "
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Movies
Very
Like
" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "
John Malkovich
Mean
Buildings
Build
" 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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Kind
People
Style
" You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. "
John Malkovich
Good
You
Someone
" 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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California
Think
Ocean
" Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway. "
John Malkovich
People
Even
Most
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Comfortable
Measure
Me
" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "
John Malkovich
You
Really
Me
" Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. "
John Malkovich
Dressed
Better
You
" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "
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Famous
Sensible
People
" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "
John Malkovich
Whatever
You
Play
" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
John Malkovich
Now
Temper
Very
" I'm not a control maniac. "
John Malkovich
Maniac
Control
" 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
" 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
" I don't think my parents know what I do. "
John Malkovich
Know
Parents
Think
" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "
John Malkovich
Little Bit
Little
Fabric
" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
John Malkovich
Like
Play
Characters
" 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
" 'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate. "
John Malkovich
Powerful
Animal
Beautiful
" As an actor there are no drawbacks. "
John Malkovich
Actor
Drawbacks
" I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. "
John Malkovich
Psychiatrist
Patients
Treating
" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "
John Malkovich
Goes
Process
Go
" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "
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Up
Mean
Other
" I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves. "
John Malkovich
Understand
Sense Of Humor
Sense