Quotes from John Malkovich

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.

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.

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

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?'

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 wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

Anybody doing something brings something to it.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

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.

Politics is not really my thing.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

My father was a very contradictory man.

I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.'

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 never really did a western western.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.