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" I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "
John Malkovich
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" I don't throw things or yell. "
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" I still have a temper, I suppose. "
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" I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. "
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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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" 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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" As an actor there are no drawbacks. "
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" Politics is not really my thing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. "
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" '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. "
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" I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. "
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" I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover. "
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" I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. "
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" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "
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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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" I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. "
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" The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. "
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" I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. "
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" Every country has their problems. "
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" Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember. "
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" 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. "
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" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "
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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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