John Malkovich

“Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.”

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

“I'm more boring and more conservative.”

“As an actor there are no drawbacks.”

“I don't remember my life before I had children.”

“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.”

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

“Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.”

“My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.”

“Utopia means elsewhere.”

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

“I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.”

“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.”

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

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

“My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.”

“I don't think my parents know what I do.”

“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.”

“Well, I like to have fun at work.”

“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.”