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You Quotes by John Malkovich
- It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster,…
- You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.
- If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
- Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
- You have to play your characters, not like them.
- You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
- People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well…
- I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
- If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
- Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
- Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
- Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
- I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.
- I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
- Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
- You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
- You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
- Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or…
- Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You…
- Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so…
- 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…
- When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to…
- You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time,…
- Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide