Quotes from John Malkovich

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

We're all animals.

I'm an atheist.

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.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

I'm not a control maniac.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

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.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.