John Malkovich Quotes

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

I was never meant to sit at home.

I've always been an adventurer, an explorer.

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

Free as a bird to settle where I will.

I just don't really want to settle and I don't think I should have to.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.

I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it.

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

Better to dream than to be.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

I don't go by the rule book

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

The best technique is none at all.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.