Malkovich Film Quotes & Sayings

I would like to have a child. A very wise and witty little girl who'd grow up to be the woman I could never be. A very independent little girl with no scars on the brain or the psyche ... A little girl who said what she meant and meant what she said. A little girl who was neither bitchy nor mealy-mouthed ... What I really wanted was to give birth to myself - the little girl I might have been in a different family, a different world. - Erica Jong, Fear of Flying — Anonymous

If, for example, you should happen to decide arbitrarily that you didn't like books written in the first person, or books about whaling, or patricide, or prostitution, or war, or wretched poverty, or divorce, or madness, or adultery, or homosexuality, or cripples, or the most erotic kind of fornication for fornication's sake, and thus should rule them off your list, you'd be doing yourself out of some of the greatest works of literature in the world's history- in fact, nearly all of them. What counts, it seems to me, is what the writer brings to his story, not the subject itself. — Charles Jackson

They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough.
In short, they were made for each other. — Eloisa James

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. — Ira Sachs

I know what irony is.'
'Okay, Alanis. — Cath Crowley

Life's a bitch," I said.
"And then you die," Larry finished for me. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore. — Johnny Unitas

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater. — John Malkovich

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. — John Lasseter

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy. — Carson Daly

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. — Lisa Gardner

Our shadows are taller than ourselves. — Natalie Clifford Barney

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. — John Malkovich

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

Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done? — Julian Fellowes

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war. — Horace