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John Malkovich Quote: “Most films, it doesn’t matter if you see them or not.”

101. “Most films, it doesn’t matter if you see them or not.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “I wasn’t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.”

102. “I wasn’t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “I don’t really go through a process, it goes through me.”

103. “I don’t really go through a process, it goes through me.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “There’s a reason screens are only this thick.”

104. “There’s a reason screens are only this thick.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I don’t have time to go to the movies very much. I work a lot of different things, I’m always busy. But I’m always happy to see a popular movie.”

105. “I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I don’t have time to go to the movies very much. I work a lot of different things, I’m always busy. But I’m always happy to see a popular movie.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.”

106. “Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “Nothing you do particularly matters. But I’m not sure that’s a great excuse for doing it poorly.”

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

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John Malkovich Quote: “There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that’s not really different from the people who really hate it.”

108. “There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that’s not really different from the people who really hate it.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that – the ghosts you chase you never catch.”

109. “I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that – the ghosts you chase you never catch.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “And may the best of you – for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments – succeed in framing that most basic of questions, ‘how do we live?’”

110. “And may the best of you – for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments – succeed in framing that most basic of questions, ‘how do we live?’”

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John Malkovich Quote: “The one natural gift I have is easy access. That’s the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.”

111. “The one natural gift I have is easy access. That’s the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “When I have failed as an actor I’ve always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn’t want the actors to think it was their fault.”

112. “When I have failed as an actor I’ve always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn’t want the actors to think it was their fault.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “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 they can get the insurance.”

113. “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 they can get the insurance.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I’m certainly more like her.”

114. “My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I’m certainly more like her.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody’s in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.”

115. “In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody’s in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “It’s tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.”

116. “It’s tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “I’m more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it’s impossible to comprehend.”

117. “I’m more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it’s impossible to comprehend.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “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.”

118. “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.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They’re pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.”

119. “I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They’re pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I’ve always done that. I think either it’s some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever’s bothering me.”

120. “I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I’ve always done that. I think either it’s some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever’s bothering me.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “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 or play a game or read.”

121. “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 or play a game or read.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “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, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.”

122. “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, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “It seems whenever I’ve had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort – a kind of game plan – it’s always been the most morbid failure.”

123. “It seems whenever I’ve had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort – a kind of game plan – it’s always been the most morbid failure.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: ‘How do we live?’”

124. “The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: ‘How do we live?’”

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John Malkovich Quote: “Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.”

125. “Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “It’s a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it’s a pressure that other people aren’t under, but then they’re under a lot of pressures that we’re not under.”

126. “It’s a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it’s a pressure that other people aren’t under, but then they’re under a lot of pressures that we’re not under.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “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 they are looking at is human life and that’s why I do it, that’s why I like it.”

127. “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 they are looking at is human life and that’s why I do it, that’s why I like it.”

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John Malkovich Quote: “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.”

128. “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.”

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