John Malkovich Quotes
There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.
The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.
The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.
There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.
I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.