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" The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. "
John Malkovich
Direct
Which
Want
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" I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. "
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" I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. "
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Football
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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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You
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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 go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love. "
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World
People
" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "
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Little Bit
Little
Fabric
" Things are so much global and Americanised. "
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Global
" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
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Play
Characters
" Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway. "
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" 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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Look
Knowledge
" I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. "
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Run
Empire
Want
" I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it. "
John Malkovich
Production
Real
Say
" I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. "
John Malkovich
American
Time
Think
" Politics is not really my thing. "
John Malkovich
Really
Politics
Thing
" As an actor there are no drawbacks. "
John Malkovich
Actor
Drawbacks
" I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous. "
John Malkovich
California
Think
Ocean
" Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. "
John Malkovich
Money
Brother
Been
" I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover. "
John Malkovich
Travel
Without
Little
" Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. "
John Malkovich
Matters
You
Nothing
" 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
" Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. "
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Movies
Own
Women
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Mind
Money
People
" I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously. "
John Malkovich
Seriously
Always
Fashion
" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
John Malkovich
Saviour
Family
Royal
" I was never a fanatical movie person. "
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Movie
Person
Fanatical
" Failure's a natural part of life. "
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Life
Natural
Failure
" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "
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Up
Mean
Other
" I always wanted to be fashionable. "
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Always
Wanted
Fashionable
" 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
" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "
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Something
Anybody
Brings