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" Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. "
John Malkovich
Dressed
Better
You
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" I don't think my parents know what I do. "
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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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Say
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" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "
John Malkovich
Me
Most
Live
" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
John Malkovich
Very
Skeptical
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" I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. "
John Malkovich
Any
Hate
See
" 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
" I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. "
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Good
Love
Watch
" I still have a temper, I suppose. "
John Malkovich
Still
Temper
Suppose
" 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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Matter
Mean
" 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. "
John Malkovich
New York
Together
Think
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Looking
Play
You
" You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. "
John Malkovich
Good
You
Someone
" I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years. "
John Malkovich
Because
Wake Up
Years
" We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. "
John Malkovich
Great
Doing
World
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Movies
Look
Knowledge
" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "
John Malkovich
Something
Anybody
Brings
" I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people. "
John Malkovich
Life
My Life
People
" 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 don't remember my life before I had children. "
John Malkovich
My Life
Life
Had
" I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. "
John Malkovich
Psychiatrist
Patients
Treating
" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "
John Malkovich
Mean
Buildings
Build
" 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
" Utopia means elsewhere. "
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Means
Elsewhere
Utopia
" I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. "
John Malkovich
Football
Good
Great
" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "
John Malkovich
Whatever
You
Play
" 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
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" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
John Malkovich
Now
Temper
Very
" 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. "
John Malkovich
Comfortable
Measure
Me
" I never really did a western western. "
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Never
Did
Western
" I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. "
John Malkovich
Confidence
You
Trying