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" Things are so much global and Americanised. "
John Malkovich
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" Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself. "
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" I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors. "
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" I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. "
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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 control maniac. "
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" I don't throw things or yell. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. "
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" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
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" Every country has their problems. "
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Country
" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
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" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. "
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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'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. "
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" Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion. "
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" 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.' "
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" I like very much to do movies. "
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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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" A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies. "
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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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" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "
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