John Malkovich Quotes

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.

I'm from the Midwest.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.

I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open.

Me myself, Brian, I'm a Midwesterner at heart, and I have this deep, bone-dry sense of humor, and I've found it worked to combine this Barbie with a dry, sarcastic man.

I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I'm a regular Joe...I just have the unique ability to accessorize.

I hate taking myself seriously. It drives me crazy!

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?

When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.