A biography for John Malkovichhasn’t been written yet.
“In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.”
“I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.”
“My father was a very contradictory man.”
“I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.”
“Anybody doing something brings something to it.”
“I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.”
“I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I never really did a western western.”
“I don't mind what I play, really.”
“I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.”
“I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.”
“I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.”
“I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.”
“Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.”
“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.”
“I've done quite a few big American films.”
“Failure's a natural part of life.”
“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.”