John Malkovich quotes
- From the movie: Queens Logic
- From the movie: The Man in the Iron Mask
“- Athos: What gives you the right to judge me, to play God with the lives of others? Is it because you're so much holier than everyone else?
- Aramis: Well yes, there is that. But also because I'm more intelligent than anybody else.” - From the movie: Mary Reilly
“- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Haven't you ever wished for a completely new life, Mary?
- Mary Reilly: No sir. What good would that do?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: I mean, suppose you were able to do absolutely whatever you wanted, with no consequences and no regrets? Then what?
- Mary Reilly: I don't believe there's such a thing as actions without consequences.” - From the movie: Empire of the Sun
“- Basie: Jim, didn't I teach you anything?
- Jim: Yes! You taught me that people will do anything... for a potato.” - From the movie: The Killing Fields
“I can't eat eggs, someone told me they shrink with fright when you cook them.”
- From the movie: Dangerous Liaisons
“I ended by falling on my knees and pledging her eternal love. And do you know that, at that time, and for several hours afterwards, I actually meant it.”
- From the movie: The Killing Fields
- From the movie: Death of a Salesman
“- Biff Loman: I tell you Happy, I don't know what the future is. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: What do you mean?
- Biff Loman: I spent six or seven years after High School trying to work myself up, being a shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Mary Reilly
“- Mary Reilly: Is Evil stronger than Good?
- Mr. Hyde: You tell me.” - From the movie: Knockaround Guys
“I got shoes older than you kid, and tougher, too.”
- From the movie: Shadow of the Vampire
- From the movie: In the Line of Fire
- From the movie: Mary Reilly
“I found how to achieve what I'd always wanted... To be the knife as well as the wound.”
- From the movie: Of Mice and Men
“Why did you get killed? You ain't so little as the mice! George is never gonna let me tend the rabbits if he finds out you got killed!”
- From the movie: The Man in the Iron Mask
- From the movie: Mulholland Falls
“A hundred die so that a thousand may live.”
- From the movie: Mary Reilly
“- Dr. Henry Jekyll: When we had our talk, you refused to say you hated your father.
- Mary Reilly: I don't.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Why not?
- Mary Reilly: He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that, but it's part of me now, and how can I regret what I am? Though it often makes me sad.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Oh, well, sadness, yes, that...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Joan of Arc
“- Charles VII: We are grateful for your pas efforts, but now your task is done. Now is the time for negotiation.
- Joan of Arc: Peace will only be got with the English by the end of a lance.
- Charles VII: Why are you so bloodthirsty? Do you enjoy it?
- Joan of Arc: No.
- Charles VII: Diplomacy is far more civilized, far safer, and far cheaper.” - From the movie: The Man in the Iron Mask
“- Athos: What happened?
- Porthos: Kidney stones. It hurts when I piss. It hurts when I shit. I'm just a fat old fart with nothing to live for anymore. I'm going to hang myself, as soon as I'm sober.” - From the movie: The Man in the Iron Mask
“I belong to the past, when uniforms were black and grown men wore them.”
- From the movie: Mulholland Falls
“You're much more intelligent than you appear to be, Lieutenant. Must be a big advantage in your field. In my field, everyone was always so desperate to seem cleverer than they were.”
- From the movie: Alive
“We were saved. Nando and Canessa breached the Andes and we were saved. Later a group went back and buried the bodies. They built a rough stone altar by the grave, and over it they placed an iron cross. There's nothing more I can tell you. We were brought together by a grand experience.”
- From the movie: Death of a Salesman
- From the movie: In the Line of Fire
- From the movie: The Killing Fields
“Anything I eat's gotta be absolutely dead. That is why I can never eat an oyster. I read somewhere that they put that lemon juice on them just to stun them. What's the difference?”
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