John Malkovich Quotes

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

'Faking It' was hard for me to let go of because I knew how many kids it helped.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

In my professional and personal life, when I meet people who feel broken after a divorce, they can usually be divided into two categories: those who truly believe there's something wrong with them, and those that are using their status as armor.

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.

I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

I feel like it's my duty to share my experience with self-acceptance. I don't want to bore people and talk about myself, but the biggest struggle for me was my body.

I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.