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
There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work. — 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
The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times,… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with… — 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
You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. — 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
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
