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" Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. "
John Malkovich
Matters
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Nothing
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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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" I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. "
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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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" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
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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 haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years. "
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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 very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "
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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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" I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. "
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" 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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" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
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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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" I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. "
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" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "
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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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" 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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Real Life
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" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "
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" I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. "
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" I like very much to do movies. "
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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've done quite a few big American films. "
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Big
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" Well, I like to have fun at work. "
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" I was never a fanatical movie person. "
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" I still have a temper, I suppose. "
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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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