Quotes from John Malkovich

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Failure's a natural part of life.

Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

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 still have a temper, I suppose.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

I always wanted to be fashionable.

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?

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 prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

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.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.