I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope.… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
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… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
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… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
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… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
