John Malkovich Quotes

I'm real. I'm not polished.

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

I don't like anything too perfect, or anyone who looks like they have just stepped out of a salon; that's not for me.

My appearance with disheveled hair and no make-up is the real me.

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

My music is more native than intricate or technical.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a lot of hair product. If he's too showy, that's embarrassing to me - I wear makeup and take showers, but that's basically it. I'm not trying to stand out too much.

I'm not into any glitz or glamor or anything like that.

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

I have not tried for a career that's showy. I have always tried to layer things in and not push it. I love an underperformance, where you're so entrenched in who that person is that you're living in it.

I'm unpolished, I guess.

I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

I don't like flashy things.

I would describe myself as a very plain but very honest person.

I didn't want 'Mudbound' to feel stylized in any way.

I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.

There's nothing historically in my life very flashy. I'm not exceptionally beautiful. I'm not exceptionally wealthy.

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

I'm not a glamorous girl.