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" Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. "
John Malkovich
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" 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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" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "
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" I don't remember my life before I had children. "
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" I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "
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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'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "
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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 go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love. "
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" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
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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. "
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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 was never a fanatical movie person. "
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" 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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" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
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" I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. "
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" Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. "
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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 don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
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" I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. "
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" I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. "
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" It never occurred to me to be an actor. "
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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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