John Malkovich

Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the…

— John Malkovich

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

— John Malkovich

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

— John Malkovich

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

— John Malkovich

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies.…

— John Malkovich

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…

— John Malkovich

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been…

— John Malkovich

You have to play your characters, not like them.

— John Malkovich

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

— John Malkovich

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…

— John Malkovich

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how…

— John Malkovich

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

— John Malkovich

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating…

— John Malkovich

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

— John Malkovich

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

— John Malkovich

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I…

— John Malkovich

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by…

— John Malkovich

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

— John Malkovich

I don't remember my life before I had children.

— John Malkovich

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

— John Malkovich

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

— John Malkovich

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

— John Malkovich

I've done quite a few big American films.

— John Malkovich

I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value…

— John Malkovich

Things are so much global and Americanised.

— John Malkovich