John Malkovich Quotes

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

People know what I'm doing.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

Actions lie louder than words.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Promise little and do much.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves

It's deeds we need, not words.

The more well-known you are, you become a target.

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...