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" 'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate. "

John Malkovich

Powerful

Animal

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" Failure's a natural part of life. "

" I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. "

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" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "

John Malkovich

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves. "

" Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part. "

" I don't think my parents know what I do. "

" There's a reason screens are only this thick. "

" I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. "

John Malkovich

Details

" You have to play your characters, not like them. "

John Malkovich

Play

Characters

" 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. "

John Malkovich

Design

School

" I was never a fanatical movie person. "

" Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself. "

" I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.' "

" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "

" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "

" I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor. "

" I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. "

" Things are so much global and Americanised. "

" Well, I like to have fun at work. "

John Malkovich

Have Fun

Fun

" I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "

" 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. "

" I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. "

" I don't mind what I play, really. "

" 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. "

" I don't remember my life before I had children. "

" I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. "

" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "