Feel Quotes

I'm an atheist.

John Malkovich

Tags: Atheist

Every country has their problems.

John Malkovich

Tags: Every Country Problems

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

John Malkovich

Tags: Actor Drawbacks

I'm more boring and more conservative.

John Malkovich

Tags: More Boring Conservative

Failure's a natural part of life.

John Malkovich

Tags: Failure Life Part

I like very much to do movies.

John Malkovich

Tags: Movies Like Very

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

John Malkovich

Tags: Me Father Strong

You have to play your characters, not like them.

John Malkovich

Tags: You Like Your

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

John Malkovich

Tags: Really Person Type

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

John Malkovich

Tags: New Everybody York

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

John Malkovich

Tags: Great You Doing

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

John Malkovich

Tags: Movies Like About

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

John Malkovich

Tags: Money Will Never

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

John Malkovich

Tags: People Think I Think

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

John Malkovich

Tags: You Just Would

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

Tags: People Always Life

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

Tags: Me More Up

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

Tags: Work About Would

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

Tags: Good First New

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.

John Malkovich

Tags: About Say Actor

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

John Malkovich

Tags: Good Great Truth

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

Tags: You Like Just

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

Tags: Great Think I Think

I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.

John Malkovich

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