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If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. (John Malkovich)
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they? View quote
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The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' View quote
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I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. View quote
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Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. View quote
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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. View quote
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. View quote
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I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. View quote
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I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater. (John Malkovich)
I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. View quote
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I'm more boring and more conservative. View quote
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I'm not a control maniac. View quote
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I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years. View quote
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I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. View quote
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I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. View quote
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't remember my life before I had children. View quote
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I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. (John Malkovich)
I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. View quote
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I've done quite a few big American films. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's a reason screens are only this thick. View quote
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