John Malkovich Quotes

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

I'm a very sentimental, emotional person.

I'm a very sensitive person.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.