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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

It never occurred to me to be an actor. — John Malkovich

I'm not a control maniac. — John Malkovich

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

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. — John Malkovich

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. — John Malkovich

I don't remember my life before I had children. — John Malkovich

Reviews are destructive by their very nature. — John Malkovich

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

I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love. — John Malkovich

We're all animals. — John Malkovich

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house. — John Malkovich

I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover. — John Malkovich

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. — John Malkovich

I still have a temper, I suppose. — John Malkovich

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

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

Politics is not really my thing. — John Malkovich

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor. — John Malkovich

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. — John Malkovich

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. — John Malkovich

I don't throw things or yell. — John Malkovich

There's a reason screens are only this thick. — 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 only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. — John Malkovich

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. — John Malkovich

You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything. — John Malkovich

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

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember. — John Malkovich

As an actor there are no drawbacks. — John Malkovich

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. — Jeremy Piven

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd. — Justin Kirk

I don't mind tracksuits. At the track. — John Malkovich

I never really did a western western. — John Malkovich

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years. — John Malkovich

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. — John Malkovich

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. — John Malkovich

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. — John Malkovich

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. — John Malkovich

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. — John Malkovich

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. — John Malkovich

Every country has their problems. — John Malkovich

I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. — John Malkovich

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. — John Malkovich

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves. — John Malkovich

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse. — 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 in the theater. — John Malkovich

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar. — John Malkovich

Anybody doing something brings something to it. — John Malkovich

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. — John Malkovich

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

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway. — John Malkovich

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people. — John Malkovich

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

John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with. — Liam Hemsworth

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich. — John Mahoney

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 don't have a saviour or a royal family. — John Malkovich

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion. — 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

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

You have to play your characters, not like them. — John Malkovich

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. — John Malkovich

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. — John Malkovich

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. — John Malkovich

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on. — John Malkovich

Things are so much global and Americanised. — John Malkovich

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

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work. — John Malkovich

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

I like very much to do movies. — John Malkovich

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure. — John Malkovich

I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors. — John Gallagher Jr.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. — John Malkovich

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is. — John Malkovich

I don't think my parents know what I do. — John Malkovich

I'm more boring and more conservative. — John Malkovich

Failure's a natural part of life. — John Malkovich

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. — 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

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. — John Malkovich

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. — John Malkovich

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

I don't mind what I play, really. — John Malkovich

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. — John Malkovich

I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously. — John Malkovich

Well, I like to have fun at work. — John Malkovich

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

I was never a fanatical movie person. — John Malkovich

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel. — John Malkovich

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. — John Malkovich

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. — John Malkovich

I'm not a very skeptical person. — John Malkovich

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

I always wanted to be fashionable. — John Malkovich

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

I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior. — 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

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. — John Malkovich

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. — John Malkovich