John Malkovich Quotes

I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.

It's just strange to think about...whether I'll be an artist or what I'll be doing.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.

I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.