John Malkovich movie quotes

Every morning that you come in, yelling that goddamned "Rise and shine, rise and shine", I think to myself, how lucky dead people are.

John Malkovich - Tom Wingfield

“I'm running out of questions... and you're running out of lies.”

John Malkovich - St. Anne

“- John Malkovich: I have seen a world that no man should see!
- Craig Schwartz: Really? Because for most people it's a rather enjoyable experience.”

John Malkovich - Himself
John Cusack - Craig Schwartz

“- Jim: Bastard! He gave me a mango!
- Basie: I'll give you a whole goddamn fruit salad. There are Frigidaires falling from the sky. It's kingdom come!
- Jim: He was my friend!
- Basie: He was a Jap!
- Jim: The war's over!”

Christian Bale - Jim
John Malkovich - Basie

“- Harold 'Happy' Loman: Bob Harrison, he said you were tops, and then you go and do some damn fool thing like whistling whole songs in the elevator like a comedian.
- Biff Loman: Well, so what? I like to whistle sometimes.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: You don't raise a guy to a responsible job who whistles in the elevator!”
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman
John Malkovich - Biff Loman

“- Mitch Leary: Watching the President, I couldn't help wondering why a man like you would risk his life to save a man like that. You have such a strange job - I can't decide if it's heroic or absurd.
- Frank Horrigan: Why would a man like you want to risk his life to kill a man like that?”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Vicomte de Valmont: Be careful of the Marquise de Merteuil.
- Chevalier Danceny: You must permit me to treat with skepticism anything you have to say about her.
- Vicomte de Valmont: Nevertheless, I must tell you in this affair, we are both her creatures, as I believe her letters to me will prove. When you have read them, you may decide to...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Vicomte de Valmont
Keanu Reeves - Chevalier Danceny

“- Dainty: What else you betting with Baise?
- Basie: My LIFE.”

Ben Stiller - Dainty
John Malkovich - Basie

“- Osbourne Cox: Some clown, or two clowns, have gotten a hold of my memoirs.
- Katie Cox: Your what?
- Osbourne Cox: Stolen it, or I don't know...
- Katie Cox: Your what?
- Osbourne Cox: My memoirs, the book I'm writing.
- Katie Cox: Well why in God's name would anyone think that's worth anything?”
John Malkovich - Osborne Cox
Tilda Swinton - Katie Cox

“Even an improbability drive needs coordinates which I happen to have.”
John Malkovich - Humma Kavula

“I never do it with whores. You start out with a burning desire and then you end up the next day with a burning sensation if you know what I mean...”
John Malkovich - Clown

“I don't know the number to, uh, my savings account because believe it or not I don't spend my entire day sitting around trying to memorize the fucking numbers to my fucking bank accounts!”
John Malkovich - Osborne Cox

“Take my hand, Frank. Take it. If you don't, you'll die. You're gonna shoot me, Frank, after I saved your life? The only way to save the president is to shoot me. Are you willing to trade your life for his, or is life too precious?”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede; our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal; our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize; and our music will linger and finally overwhelm, because it will have a context...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

“I wonder, Frank, did you kill me? Who won our game? Not that it really matters, for among friends like you and me, it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, and now the game is done it's time to get on with your life.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“- Mitch Leary: Do you have any idea what I've done for God and country? Some pretty fucking horrible things! I don't even remember who I was before they sunk their claws into me!
- Frank Horrigan: They made you into a real monster, right?
- Mitch Leary: That's right. And now they want to destroy me because we can't have monsters roaming the...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- General Timms: What do you see?
- Hoover: People dead before their time.”

John Malkovich - General Timms
Nick Nolte - Hoover

“And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse!”

John Malkovich - Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom

“- John Malkovich: You see, Maxine, it isn't just playing with dolls.
- Maxine Lund: You're right, my darling, it's so much more. It's playing with people!”

John Malkovich - Himself
Catherine Keener - Maxine Lund

“We're not like other people, we're artists, you know with great talent comes responsibility.”
John Malkovich - Clown

“- Herman Mankiewicz: It won't be easy having made your masterpiece at 26.
- Orson Welles: Is that what you think - that I'm just going to burn out at the ripe old age of 26?
- Herman Mankiewicz: All stars burn out, Orson. It's the flame that counts.”
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles

“- Athos: You came to restrain me?
- D'Artagnan: I came to give you hope.”
John Malkovich - Athos
Gabriel Byrne - D'Artagnan

“- Jim: We'll have to leave the camp.
- Basie: That's the idea, Jim. First one side feeds you and the other side tries to get you killed, then it's turned around; it's all timing.”
Christian Bale - Jim
John Malkovich - Basie

“- John Malkovich: This portal is mine and must be sealed up forever. For the love of God.
- Craig Schwartz: With all respect, sir, I discovered that portal. Its my livelihood.
- John Malkovich: It's my head, Schwartz, and I'll see you in court!”
John Malkovich - Himself
John Cusack - Craig Schwartz

“- Mr. Hyde: I feel differently with you. Why should that be? You still the rage.
- Mary Reilly: Where does it come from, Sir, this rage?
- Mr. Hyde: How should I know? It comes in like the tide.”
John Malkovich - Mr. Edward Hyde
Julia Roberts - Mary Reilly