John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has appeared in more than 70 films.
I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare.
It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.
I was never a fanatical movie person.
Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.
You have to play your characters, not like them.
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
I've done quite a few big American films.
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.
Utopia means elsewhere.
It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.
I don't think my parents know what I do.
I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.
I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.
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.
Failure's a natural part of life.
I don't need to be liked.
The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.
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.