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 never really did a western western.
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details of their life, as you perceive them, to life. You attempt to do to that as fully and as vibrantly as you can. It's depressing to read how much you've failed. And it's not even particularly instructive or necessary to read how you succeeded because in the end don't you have to judge that?
Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.
I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.
For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents...But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
Failure's a natural part of life.
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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.