126 Quotes By John Malkovich You Should Pay Heed To
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
Anybody doing something brings something to it.
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
It never occurred to me to be an actor.
I was never a fanatical movie person.
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.
Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.
I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
I believe in humans.
I don't remember my life before I had children.
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 be so factual as time marches on.
I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
I'm more boring and more conservative.
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.
Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.
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.
Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
We're all animals.
