Top Quotes by John Malkovich

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
Collection: Great

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
Collection: Dreams

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
- John Malkovich
Collection: Humor

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

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
Collection: Dad

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
Collection: Design

Failure's a natural part of life.
- John Malkovich
Collection: Failure

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

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 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.
- 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

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way.
- John Malkovich

I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'
- John Malkovich

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.
- John Malkovich

I like very much to do movies.
- John Malkovich

I've done quite a few big American films.
- John Malkovich

I always wanted to be fashionable.
- John Malkovich

I'm not a control maniac.
- John Malkovich

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

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

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
- 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

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
- John Malkovich

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
- John Malkovich

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 be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
- John Malkovich

Every country has their problems.
- John Malkovich

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

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
- John Malkovich

Anybody doing something brings something to it.
- John Malkovich

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

I was never a fanatical movie person.
- John Malkovich

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

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

I don't need to be liked.
- John Malkovich

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

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

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

I believe in humans.
- 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