John Malkovich

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Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
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Politics is not really my thing.
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.
I like very much to do movies.
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
Failure's a natural part of life.

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