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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. "
John Malkovich
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" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
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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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" People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other. "
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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 haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years. "
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" You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. "
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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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" Politics is not really my thing. "
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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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" 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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" I never really did a western western. "
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" It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. "
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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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" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
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" I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. "
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" It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. "
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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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" I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. "
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Daughter
" Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion. "
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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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" I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education. "
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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 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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" I like very much to do movies. "
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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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