John Malkovich
John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovichis an American actor and director. He has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Con Air, Of Mice and Men, Rounders, Ripley's Game, Knockaround Guys, Being John Malkovich, Shadow of the Vampire, Burn After Reading, RED, Mulholland Falls, and Warm Bodies, as well...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth9 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I don't have time to go to the movies very much. I work a lot of different things, I'm always busy. But I'm always happy to see a popular movie.
I don't throw things or yell.
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.
Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.
I always wanted to be fashionable.
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.
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.
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
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.
It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.