Malkovich Film Quotes

#1. I'm extremely lucky that my passion - making and creating - is also my career.

Brit Morin

#2. All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.

Jim Crace

#3. Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Herman Melville

#4. How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable?

Paul Kalanithi

#5. Sex is a fact of life ... and while it may lead to abuses ... no words need be spoken ... for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.

Hugo Black

#6. Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Alphonsus Liguori

#7. The delicious breath of rain was in the air.

Kate Chopin

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

John Malkovich

#9. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.

Bryan Q. Miller

#10. I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.

Kurtwood Smith

#11. People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

Jack White

#12. By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Julius Charles Hare

#13. 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

#14. We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

Albert Einstein

#15. 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