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" Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. "
John Malkovich
Most
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" I was never a fanatical movie person. "
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" When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. "
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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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" In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. "
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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 don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. "
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" I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. "
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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'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 mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is. "
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" I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere. "
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" I never really did a western western. "
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" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "
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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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Little
" I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people. "
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" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
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