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" Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. "
John Malkovich
Women
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" Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream. "
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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 don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. "
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" I don't throw things or yell. "
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" I've done quite a few big American films. "
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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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" Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion. "
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" I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. "
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" You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. "
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" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
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" I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. "
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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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" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "
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" I don't remember my life before I had children. "
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" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
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" Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. "
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" I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. "
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" I don't need to be liked. "
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" My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. "
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" Well, I like to have fun at work. "
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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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" I'm not a control maniac. "
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" I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. "
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" I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can. "
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