John Malkovich movie quotes

“You want me to do the impossible and you want me to do it alone?”
John Malkovich - Athos

“- Marvin: If there's one thing I know, it's women and covert ops.
- Frank: That's two things.
- Han Cho Bai: No, grasshopper. It is not.”
John Malkovich - Marvin
Bruce Willis - Frank
Byung-hun Lee - Han Cho Bai

“Once you give people the freedom to do whatever they want, as the Lord found in the Garden of Eden, they will do exactly that.”
John Malkovich - Rev. Gustav Briegleb

- Herman Mankiewicz: What about Marion?
- Orson Welles: She's just another piece in his collection. Another animal in his zoo.
- Herman Mankiewicz: Well to Hearst, that is love. "I love you, I built you a beautiful cage".
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles

“The election is ancient history, Zaphod. If memory serves, you won, proving that good looks and charm win over brilliance and the ability to govern. And for the record? You are stupid.”

John Malkovich - Humma Kavula

“Frank is a very simple creature with very simple needs. Okay? It's killing... eating... sexting... eating... Killing, I guess.”
John Malkovich - Marvin

“- Vicomte de Valmont: I have no intention of breaking down her prejudices. I want her to believe in God and virtue and the sanctity of marriage, and still not be able to stop herself. I want the excitement of watching her betray everything that's most important to her. Surely you understand that. I thought betrayal was your favorite word.
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John Malkovich - Vicomte de Valmont
Glenn Close - Marquise de Merteuil

“D'Artagnan, I have never known a finer man than you nor cared more for a friend, but if this king harms my son merely to take a lover, then this king will become my enemy. And so will any man who stands between that enemy and me.”

John Malkovich - Athos

“- Mitch Leary: The irony is so thick you could choke on it.
- Frank Horrigan: There's no fucking irony, Mitch.
- Mitch Leary: Think, Frank. The same government that trained me to kill trained you to protect. Yet now you want to kill me while up on that roof I protected you. They're gonna write books about us, Frank.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Athos: What is Porthos doing?
- Aramis: Walking into the barn naked, or so it would seem.
- Athos: But what is he doing?
- Aramis: About to hang himself, I suppose; he's been threatening to do it for months.”
John Malkovich - Athos

“- Frank: You gave her a gun?
- Marvin: It is America, Frank.
- Sarah: Everyone else has a gun.
- Frank: She has no idea what to do with this.
- Sarah: I know exactly what to do with it.”
Bruce Willis - Frank
John Malkovich - Marvin
Mary-Louise Parker - Sarah

“Every man loves, Orson. Or has loved.”
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz

“- Frank: Look, I'm retired, okay. I'm happy. We are happy.
- Marvin: Frank... Frank... You haven't killed anybody in months.
- Frank: That is not a bad thing, okay? That's a positive thing for a lot of people.”
Bruce Willis - Frank
John Malkovich - Marvin

“- Mitch Leary: Do you believe in the nobility of suicide?
- Frank Horrigan: No. But if you wanna blow your goddamn head off, go ahead. Be my guest.
- Mitch Leary: Nicely put, Frank, but I don't want to leave this miserable world alone.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“Once I, once all of us, believed in serving something greater than ourselves. Aramis had his faith, Porthos his lust for life, D'Artagnan his devotion and I had Raoul. But we all had a common dream. That one day we would finally be able to serve a king who was worthy of the throne. It is what we dreamt, what we bled for, and what we have waited...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Malkovich - Athos

“Late at night, when the demons come, do you see the rifle coming out of that window, or do you see Kennedy's head being blown apart? If you'd reacted to that first shot, could you have gotten there in time to stop the big bullet? And if you had - that could've been your head being blown apart. Do you wish you'd succeeded, Frank? Or is life too...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

I run out of that building and I see... the sky. I see all the things I love in this world. The work, the food, the time to sit and smoke. And I look at this pen and I ask myself, "What the hell am I grabbing this thing for? Why am I trying to become something I don't wanna become when all I want is out there waiting for me the minute I say I... (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Biff Loman

“- Orson Welles: So how big is this monstrosity?
- Herman Mankiewicz: The estate? Half the size of Rhode Island.
- Orson Welles: You're kidding?
- Herman Mankiewicz: No, it's the place God would have built if he had the money.”

Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz

“- Frank Horrigan: Take my hand. If you don't, you'll die.
- Mitch Leary: Do you want to save me, Frank?
- Frank Horrigan: To be frank and honest with you, no. But it's my job.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan
John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“It's a prison. There's no trouble getting in, the problems will come when we want to get out.”
John Malkovich - Athos

“God doesn't punish the wicked and reward the righteous. Everyone dies. Some die because they deserve to; others die simply because they come from Minneapolis. It's random and it's meaningless.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“To be affronted by solitude without decadence, or a single material thing to prostitute, it elevates you to a spiritual plane, where I felt the presence of God. Now, there's the God they taught me about at school, and there is the God that's hidden by what surrounds us in this civilization. That's the God that I met on the mountain.”
John Malkovich - Narrator

“- Yolande of Aragon: Don't worry, Charles. If God is still with her, she will be victorious.
- Charles VII: But her army is so much smaller.
- Yolande of Aragon: Then her faith will have to be bigger.”
Faye Dunaway - Yolande of Aragon
John Malkovich - Charles VII

“I am the bandit. He is merely the cave in which I shelter.”

John Malkovich - Mr. Edward Hyde

“There is truth, and there are lies, and art always tells the truth. Even when it's lying.”

John Malkovich - Himself