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'm not a very skeptical person.
I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.
I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.
You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.
I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
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.
I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
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.