Quotes by John Malkovich

About John Malkovich:

John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor and director. He has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Con Air, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, Burn After Reading, RED, and Warm Bodies, as well as producing films such as Ghost World, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.

John Malkovich

I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they ...

John Malkovich

Failure's a natural part of life.

John Malkovich

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

John Malkovich

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

John Malkovich

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

John Malkovich

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.

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 the standard he set.

John Malkovich

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 are simply participating in someone else's dream.

John Malkovich

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

John Malkovich

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.

John Malkovich

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

John Malkovich

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

John Malkovich

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

John Malkovich

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

John Malkovich

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 ridicul...

John Malkovich

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.

John Malkovich

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

John Malkovich

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

John Malkovich

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

John Malkovich

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Malkovich
  • DescriptionUS-american actor, film producer and film director
  • BornDecember 9, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Producer; Television Actor; Film Actor; Film Director
  • AwardsDonostia Award