John Malkovich Quotes

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

I'm not an actor, I'm not good looking. It's not what I do, and I don't want to be one. Maybe if I watched myself I would then try to be one.

I'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well.

I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

Suriya is more handsome than me.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.