John Malkovich

John Malkovich

09-Dec-1953


United States


Actor

QUOTES BY John Malkovich


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

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

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

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

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 ridiculous sums of money for it.

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.

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

I'm more boring and more conservative.

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

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