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" Politics is not really my thing. "
John Malkovich
Really
Politics
Thing
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" I don't need to be liked. "
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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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Looking
Play
You
" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
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Very
Skeptical
Person
" I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. "
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People
" Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. "
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Movies
Look
Knowledge
" Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion. "
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Out
Scary
Like
" 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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Travel
Without
Little
" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "
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Famous
Sensible
People
" 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. "
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Women
Most
Live
" I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem. "
John Malkovich
I Think
Think
Said
" Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. "
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Me
Design
School
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Others
Me
Able
" I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. "
John Malkovich
Sex
Born
Daughter
" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "
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Comfortable
Measure
Me
" I'm more boring and more conservative. "
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Conservative
More
Boring
" I don't remember my life before I had children. "
John Malkovich
My Life
Life
Had
" I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. "
John Malkovich
Film
Temper
Lose
" I was never a fanatical movie person. "
John Malkovich
Movie
Person
Fanatical
" We're all animals. "
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Animals
" I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. "
John Malkovich
Boring
Always
Want
" As an actor there are no drawbacks. "
John Malkovich
Actor
Drawbacks
" My father was a very contradictory man. "
John Malkovich
Father
Contradictory
Very
" My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. "
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Me
Influence
Strong
" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
John Malkovich
Saviour
Family
Royal
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Pencil
Blue
Black
" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "
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Goes
Process
Go
" I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. "
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People
Think
Me
" You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything. "
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Things
See
Get
" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
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Now
Temper
Very
" I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. "
John Malkovich
Confidence
Myself
You