A biography for John Malkovichhasn’t been written yet.
“I like very much to do movies.”
“Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.”
“It never occurred to me to be an actor.”
“Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.”
“I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.”
“If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.”
“I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.”
“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.”
“We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.”
“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.”
“I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.”
“I don't have a saviour or a royal family.”
“I don't need to be liked.”
“Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.”
“I'm not a control maniac.”
“You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.”
“I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.”
“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.”
“Things are so much global and Americanised.”
“I'm an atheist.”