John Malkovich movie quotes

“It's at the beginning and end of war that we have to watch out. In between, it's like a country club.”
John Malkovich - Basie

“That's the history of the world, Lieutenant. Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's the cornerstone of civilization.”

John Malkovich - General Timms

“- George Milton: Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain't got no family and they don't belong no place. They got nothin' to look ahead to...
- Lennie Small: But not us George. Tell about us.
- George Milton: Well, we ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.”
Gary Sinise - George Milton
John Malkovich - Lennie Small

“- Mary Reilly: He said you have an illness. What kind of an illness?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: You might call it a fracture in my soul, something which left me with a taste for oblivion.”
Julia Roberts - Mary Reilly
John Malkovich - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“The world can be a cruel place to an honest man.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“- George Milton: Lennie! Listen to me, God damn it! Don't you even look at her! I don't care what she says or what she does, she's a rat trap if I ever seen one.
- Lennie Small: But I wasn't doing nothing.
- George Milton: No, but when she was shoving her legs around you weren't looking the other way neither. Keep away from her!”

Gary Sinise - George Milton
John Malkovich - Lennie Small

“- Lennie Small: I seen your light.
- Crooks: Yeah, well, I got a right to have a light. Now I ain't wanted in those bunkhouses and you ain't wanted in my room.
- Lennie Small: Why ain't you wanted?
- Crooks: Because I'm black! And they say I stink. Well, I tell you - all of y'all stink to me!”
John Malkovich - Lennie Small
Joe Morton - Crooks

“- Vicomte de Valmont: I often wonder how you manage to invent yourself.
- Marquise de Merteuil: Well, I had no choice, did I? I'm a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has every...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Vicomte de Valmont
Glenn Close - Marquise de Merteuil

“Jimmy Harrell-The pressure test costs about what, a hundred and fifteen thousand? BP is a thirty three billion dollar company, and you say you can't afford...
Vidrine-That is why we are a thirty SIX billion dollar company, because we worry about all those bills.
Jimmy Harrell-I worry about my rig! My people live on it. You just rent it!”
Kurt Russell - Jimmy Harrell
John Malkovich - Vidrine

“I believe there is a higher degree of probability she’s wearing those type of panties than no panties at all.”
John Malkovich - Dr. Adrian Mallory

“I don’t know if that is a noun, a verb, or an adjective describing my outfit.”
John Malkovich - Dr. Adrian Mallory

“Every contact we've had with the outside has brought us death!”
John Malkovich - Douglas

“- Frank: Is that a stick of dynamite in your pocket?
- Marvin: Yeah, but I'm saving it for emergency.”
Bruce Willis - Frank
John Malkovich - Marvin

“I worry, Frank, that you have no life to get on with. You're a good man, and good men like you and me are destined to walk a lonely road. Goodbye, and good luck.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“We are going to get one of the three R's: the roof, the river, or the revolver.”
John Malkovich - Teddy Deserve

“- Orson Welles: I expected better of you, Mank.
- Herman Mankiewicz: Me too, but I got used to it.”
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz

“- Al Rockoff: It bothers me that you let Pran stay in Cambodia because you wanted to win that fucking award and you knew you needed him!
- Sydney Schanberg: I had no idea that...
- Al Rockoff: The fuck you didn't! The fuck you didn't!”
John Malkovich - Al Rockoff
Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg

“- Amanda Wingfield: Rise and shine! Rise and shine!
- Tom Wingfield: I will rise but I will not shine...”
Joanne Woodward - Amanda Wingfield
John Malkovich - Tom Wingfield

“- Harry Pfarrer: Twenty years of Marshal Service, I never discharged my gun.
- Osbourne Cox: That sounds like something you ought to be telling your psychologist.”
George Clooney - Harry Pfarrer
John Malkovich - Osborne Cox

“Kids, what happens in the Kremlin stays in the Kremlin.”
John Malkovich - Marvin

“Buying and selling, Frank. You know. Life.”
John Malkovich - Basie

Edward Bailey was a genius physicist who built some of the greatest stuff during the Cold War. Neutron bombs, particle beam weapons, nerve gas. Excellent nerve gas. You know, he was a... rock star of conceptual mass killing. They called him the "The Da Vinci of Death".
John Malkovich - Marvin

“- Jeremy: Why do you keep running away from me? There's nothing to be afraid of.
- Eliot: I know that. I'm not running away from you. I don't like you. I don't like what you say, and I don't like the way you talk about my friends. I know what you're thinking: here is this poor, repressed faggot from the boroughs who needs to get laid, and you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Terry Kinney - Jeremy
John Malkovich - Eliot

“- Cameron Poe: Many hands make light work. My daddy taught me that.
- Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom: Ya know what my daddy taught me?
- Cameron Poe: What's that?
- Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom: Nothing.
- Cameron Poe: Self-educated man.”
Nicolas Cage - Cameron Poe
John Malkovich - Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom

“If it's not in frame, it doesn't exist.”
John Malkovich - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau