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John Malkovich Wiki Biography

• John Gavin Malkovich, known simply as John Malkovich, is a well-known American actor, fashion designer, director, and film producer, as well as a businessman. 
• John Malkovich has appeared in over seventy movies throughout his long acting career, many of which earned him awards and accolades, and founded him as a popular industry actor. 
• The rise to fame of Malkovich began in 1984 when he starred in Robert Benton’s award-winning drama film “Place in the Heart” alongside Sally Field, Danny Glover, and Ed Harris. 
• John Malkovich received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Mr. Will, while the film itself won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as a Silver Bear Award. 
• “In 1993, the next wave of Malkovich’s success came with a suspense film directed by Wolfgang Petersen entitled “In the Line of Fire,” where Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo played the main characters. 
• The film gathered multiple award nominations and grossed more than $187 million in box offices worldwide with primarily favorable critical reviews. 
• The net worth of John Malkovich is estimated to be $45 million, according to reports. 
• Needless to mention, Malkovich’s wealth comes mainly from his work as an actor. 
• In Christopher, Illinois, John Malkovich was born in 1953, but he spent much of his childhood in Benton, where he attended Benton Consolidated High School. 
• When he began performing in musicals, as well as other school and theater productions, Malkovich’s passion for acting started in high school. 
• His decision to major in the subject at Illinois State University was inspired by Malkovich’s interest in theatre. 
• Prior to his great success, John Malkovich was part of the Chicago-based “Steppenwolf Theatre Company” in which he collaborated on different plays. 
• John Malkovich moved to New York in 1980 to seek an acting career, where he starred in the play “True West” by Sam Shepard. 
• The performance by Malkovich in this play won him an Obie Award. 
• “John Malkovich made several more appearances on the theater stages before making his television debut and debuted on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman. 
• The first film by Malkovich was “A Wedding” by Robert Altman, a comedy movie starring Carol Burnett, Lillian Gish, and Geraldine Chaplin, wherein some of the scenes he appeared as an extra. 
• John Malkovich produced films such as ‘Juno’ with Michael Cera, Jason Bateman and Ellen Page, which received an Academy Award and three Oscar nominations, ‘Young Adult‘ with Charlize Theron, and, more recently, an award-winning film with Logan Lerman entitled ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower.’ 
• IMDB Wikipedia’ True West ‘Empire of the Sun‘ (1980) $45 Million 1953 6 feet (1.83 m) A Wedding (1978) Academy Award Actor Actors Amandine Malkovich Arthur Miller Arts Being John Malkovich Benton Merged High School Businessperson Cameron Diaz Carol Burnett Casey Siemaszko Catherine Keener Charlize Theron Christian Bale and Nigel Havers Christopher Clint Eastwood Crr Cinema of the United States 

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John Malkovich Trademarks

1. Soft mellow voice
2. Often plays menacing, sadistic villains

John Malkovich Quotes

• I was sitting in Piccadilly, when a guy came up and asked some directions. So I told him where to go and I went back to reading my book. But he kept saying, ‘Don’t I know your face?’ ‘Aren’t you an actor?’ ‘What have you done?’ And finally I said, ‘Look, why don’t you go wherever it is you’re trying to find’. Which might sound kinda snotty. But, by the 60,000th time, it really starts to be a drag. Those things you lose forever. No one can really warn you they’re going. It’s not the kind of thing anyone could prepare you for. I was an actor for ten years and nobody ever bothered me once. But what can I say? You know – Garbo had a point.
• [on the funeral of the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who died at 106 years old] He was an example for everyone, he had his own vision and point of view, he was the only man we thought won’t die, I loved him.
• This is what politics is to me: Somebody tells you all the trees on your street have a disease. One side says give them food and water and everything will be fine. One side says chop them down and burn them so they don’t infect another street. That’s politics. And I’m going, Who says they’re diseased? And how does this sickness manifest itself? And is this outside of a natural cycle? And who said this again? And when where they on the street? But we just have people who shout, “Chop it down and burn it” or “Give it food and water,” and there’s your two choices. Sorry, I’m not a believer.
• In movies you’re a product. And if I’m a product, I’m a Tabasco sauce. I’m not a sort of shepherd’s pie, and that’s the way it is.
• I’m not a Method actor. I don’t believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I’m playing a blind man, I don’t go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don’t go in for that very much, principally because I’d rather make it up.
• I like to direct movies, but I don’t like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it’s pretty irritating to get a movie on and you get all that irritation already as a producer. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don’t really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not all to say that I would never do it again, or it would never happen again. But I haven’t read any scripts at all where I’ve felt like, “You know what? It’s probably better if I just do this myself.” I could always think, “Well you know, I think so and so should do this.” And then as a producer, sometimes I’m able to get that person to do it. We occasionally have a project where I wouldn’t mind saying, “I could be someone who could be considered,” but I would never go any further than that. I just haven’t found the thing that made me want to. And films take too long. There’s too much BS, too much nonsense. You know if I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether it’s here, or in Paris or Mexico or Spain or London or whatever, and say, “I want to do this, are you interested?” They’ll answer the next day. With a movie, it’s all, “Oh, I see this film as blah blah blah.” They don’t know what they’re talking about, they don’t care. I loved doing The Dancer Upstairs (2002), and I like the film, but it also is like a waste of seven years of my life.
• [on making Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)] I love doing things like this. I’m not offered them very much, for reasons that remain obscure to me. It’s always fun to do a film with a certain amount of action and a great amount of fantasy.
• I think the nicest experience one has being an actor is when you like watching someone you’re working with…Good actors love to watch good acting, and I think a lot of them – oddly enough, far from being jealous of it or threatened by it – actually live for it. Me, I’ve been a director my whole life, so there’s nothing I love more than sitting there with my piehole shut watching great actors transport me somewhere. [2010]
• Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I’ve actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. That’ll be a family first and has great meaning for me.
• [on the costumes in Secretariat (2010)]: I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you’re struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. It binds you. But was I conformable wearing the stuff? Sure, why not?
• [on turning down the Jimmy Conway role in Goodfellas (1990)] It sort of came at a bad time in my life, when I wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to think about working. It’s hard to explain why you end up in Eragon (2006) and not Goodfellas (1990). But De Niro is fantastic.
• The first acting teacher I had taught me the worst sin was to be boring. When it comes to how I think a character views the world, I’m fairly decisive . But for me, there has to be inherent in the act of presenting that view something which didn’t exist before. Something an audience won’t have seen – commensurate, of course, with the writing.
• A lot of our wonderful actors, from Marlon Brando to George C. Scott, found it a shameful occupation and really lost interest in it. But it always interests me, and watching others do it always interests me, and I don’t find it shameful. I mean, as compared to what?
• For a long time I played brooding, “James Dean” types. I was kind of relieved when my hair fell out and I didn’t have to do that any more.
• Generally you act in movies because you are too lazy to act in theatre, or you can’t, or you want a lot of money, or you want to be really famous.
• What we were doing [at Steppenwolf] was better, that’s all. We started out to try and do good work for its own sake. That has nothing to do with theatre in New York. Yeah, they want to do good work once they’re doing it, but basically it’s more to do with where that’ll get them. That’s perfectly natural, but not necessarily acceptable or right. If you did a good play in New York you got a little lead spot on Kojak (1973). That’s not for me.
• I probably know a lot more technically than most film actors about lenses and lights and things like that, but basically to be effective I need the sequence of events behind me. I get that in the theatre every night, which I find freeing in a way.
• For me, movies are like a quick sketch, a doodle. Theatre is like a painting. It involves more craft. It has more depth, more texture, and it changes every single night because it’s a living, breathing organism. It commands my respect that much more.
• I’m very much a typical Midwesterner, and I don’t think the condition is curable.
• I’m more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it’s impossible to comprehend.
• I love Charlie Sheen. If there was a Charlie Sheen For President committee, I’d be on it. With this movie, I liked the idea that when John Malkovich is in a personal jam, Charlie Sheen is the one who provides the tough love. It seemed to me to be such an invitation to nihilism that we couldn’t resist doing it. — John Malkovich on Charles’ cameo in the film Being John Malkovich (1999).
• You focus on how a character views the world. And, if you have talent, you focus on what they do to get what they want, on what they do when they don’t know what they want, on how they look and sound and react. I don’t go out and buy a false nose every time I pick up a script. I don’t lose or gain 40 pounds. But I think about stuff like that. I’ve done a monocle part or two. It just seems to me that monocles and canes are only useful if they help the performance.
• I’m not prone to talk much about what I do. But then I never have been. I mean, I don’t think hookers rush home from work and say, “Honey! I had the most incredible hand-job today!
• (Acting is) always things about imaginary people, imaginary events, imaginary things. That can make you know that what you’re doing is very trivial. The nature of what it is, remaining, in some way, a child. Sometimes you look at it like an adult and think, ‘What difference does this make to anything?’ But you can say the same thing about banking or journalism or anything in the world …
• I don’t think, personally, I’m much like any character I ever played, including John Malkovich (in Being John Malkovich (1999)). I don’t really see the resemblance at all. It’s more a frequency you transmit than something that you fundamentally are.
• I don’t think I ever – even to this day – made a conscious decision about acting.
• [on fashion] It’s something I always liked. I don’t know where that came from. I always imagine it was from being very fat as a child. I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me – occasionally while striking me – that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there’s great truth in that.
• It’s ‘Be lucky, be good, and have a good story to tell ‘. Cause a failure is a failure. And, believe me, I’ve had many. It’s like playing baseball. Even the best actors don’t bat 300 all the time. Sometimes, you know, you just strike out.
• The other day I was walking down the street in the rural town where we live (in France) and a truck hit me, rather hard, going fairly fast. And he starts to drive off, so I chase after him, reach in the window and grab his steering wheel. And I say, ‘Normally, in a civilized society, when we hit someone with a truck, we might inquire as to their well being.’ So he said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and I said, ‘Great. Try and be a little more careful and that would be fantastic, and so sorry to have troubled you.’ I walk another 30 meters and he pulls up beside me a second time — and asks me if he can have an autograph.
• “I did a million things. I worked in an office supply store, I drove a school bus, I painted houses, I worked for a Mexican landscape gardening company, picking out weeds. And generally when I was doing something it somehow took my interest. In fact, it must be a kind of shallowness. When I did office supplies mostly I thought about office supplies, and then when I got on the train I’d think about theatre, and then I would do theatre. But the next morning I would go in and, you know, reorganize the paper clips.” – On menial jobs he held before becoming a successful actor.
• “I’ve lived in Europe for the better part of 12 years, and I’ve noticed that one of the big errors Europeans make is to dismiss America as having no culture. That’s an incredible mistake, and whether it’s born of arrogance or neurosis caused by the fact that America is perceived as hugely powerful, it’s wrong. For a century or two, a decent percentage of the major writers, poets, artists, musicians, painters, filmmakers, actors, screenwriters, and dancers have been born in the U.S. Americans have acquitted themselves pretty well in those areas. There’s a great culture there, an enormous culture. I just don’t plain like a lot of it, but it’s OK if other people like it.” (Late 1990’s qoute)
• We’re all going to die, so the death penalty should be called the early-death penalty. And the furor about it strikes me as ridiculous. To make criminals feel what they’ve chosen to provoke others to feel would be the ideal penalty, but it’s impossible to do that. Many of them are psychopaths without conscience. People can debate all this as much as they like, but I really don’t care. I’m not a big believer in the judicial system, our laws or our Constitution. All the things Americans rave about as being sacrosanct are to me incredibly deeply flawed.
• I was born in the West after World War II in a senselessly wealthy country, and I never really had to struggle. Sure, there were years when I didn’t have a refrigerator or stove, but that’s nothing compared to Rwanda.
• Film is about what appears to be. You can’t fake theater, but you can fake anything in movies. You can fake chemistry between people. You can fake sex, love, explosions, special effects, horror…
• From the start I was relaxed onstage. It’s home to me.
• “I don’t like all of the crap associated with it. If I wanted to run wind sprints, I’d be a sprinter. Or if I wanted to lift weights, I’d be a weight lifter.” – On why he doesn’t like doing research for the characters he plays.
• “I’m drawn to a character with a lack of humanity. People give reasons for being cruel or sadistic but I think it is just a lack of humanity and concern for others. I think I’m good at them because I don’t like them. Audiences are attracted to them but I hate them. It’s strange.” – On why he enjoys playing evil characters.
• I’ve always felt that if you can’t make money as an actor, you`re either incredibly stupid or tragically unlucky.
• I wasn’t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
• Because I’ve been doing theatre so long, there isn’t a lot for me to learn about theatre acting. But there is an enormous amount for me to learn about movie acting. It’s not that I can’t do it, but it never feels quite right. I almost always feel like a race car on a go-cart track. There’s no place to unwind. Just as you get going, it’s time to go home for the night.
• I still don’t know if I made the right decision when I went into acting. I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn’t gone into acting. Mind you, it’s a great life, going around pretending you’re other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
• I probably have more female friends than any man I’ve ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they’re generally mentally tougher, and they’re better listeners, and they’re more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality – they’re sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.
• I’m not cynical. I’m merely stating a fact. Most filmmakers’ entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That’s why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I’m not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.
• [on Dangerous Liaisons (1988)] The movie should appeal to everyone. It’s sleazy, elegant, vicious and mean, and it’s about people doing hideous things to each other. If that weren’t enough, it has a tragic end. What more could people ask for?
• I’m not terribly articulate in many ways and particularly when it comes to what I do. And, at the risk of sounding like Holden Caulfield, I don’t know if I would talk about it even if I could.
• “I want to be successful. I would like it to be a success with something that doesn’t make me want to vomit all over the screening room after I’ve seen it.” (1980s quote)
• [Spike Jonze wanted to borrow photographs from his childhood for Being John Malkovich (1999)] “I gave them my mother’s phone number and told them to tell her that I’m an actor and it was for a film. I don’t think my parents know what I do.”
• [on Being John Malkovich (1999)] When I first looked at the script, the title seemed like a one-line joke, but it turned out to be a 100-page joke.

John Malkovich Important Facts

• $1,000,000
• He was awarded the 1987 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for “Burn This” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Killing Fields (1984), Places in the Heart (1984) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
• He moved outside Boston, Massachusetts. [October 2008]
• Fluent in French, and lived in France for almost 10 years. He left in 2003.
• He has worked with 8 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Robert Benton, Steven Spielberg, Bernardo Bertolucci, Woody Allen, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood, and Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.
• He turned down the role played by Timothy Dalton in The King’s Whore (1990).
• Lost an undisclosed amount of money in the Bernard Madoff scandal.
• Good friend of Gérard Depardieu. They worked together on several projects: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Les misérables (2000) and Napoléon (2002).
• He was nominated for a 1996 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for “The Libertine”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was nominated for a 1985 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a play for “Coyote Ugly”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was awarded the 1982 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “True West”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was awarded the 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for “Balm in Gilead”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was nominated for a 1980 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in the play, “Say Goodnight, Gracie”, at the Travel Light Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• He co-owns a restaurant/nightclub in Portugal. [2003]
• He dropped out of Crazy People (1990) after around two weeks of filming and was replaced by Dudley Moore.
• Offered the role of Green Goblin/Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002).
• Frequently visits Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia).
• His performance as himself in Being John Malkovich (1999) is ranked #90 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
• First actor to win a major award (New York Film Critics) for portraying himself in a movie (non-cameo role). The film was Being John Malkovich (1999).
• Attended college with Joan Allen who was occasionally a scene partner of Malkovich’s in their acting classes. Later attended another acting class years with John Mahoney. He encouraged both actors to join the Steppenwolf Theater Company, which they did.
• Won a second Village Voice Obie this time for Direction for “Balm in Gilead” in 1985.
• Won a Village Voice Obie for his performance in “True West” in 1984.
• His favorite films include: Citizen Kane (1941), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), High Noon (1952), The 400 Blows (1959), The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Conformist (1970) and This Is Spinal Tap (1984).
• In 1976, he quit college in order to work at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater.
• When he was a teenager, he decided to get his excessive weight under control and lost 70 pounds by eating nothing but Jell-O for four months.
• Legend has it that he was told by the head of the Theatre Department at Illinois State University that he would not have a career as an actor. Even though he did not graduate from ISU (he never took the constitution test), the Theatre Department still claims him as an alumnus. On April 4, 2005, he returned to visit the Theatre Department where he was presented with an official diploma for his bachelor’s degree in theatre.
• Has developed a great passion for Portugal, where he has filmed some movies recently. He also keeps a house here, as he co-owns a disco in Lisbon.
• Children with Nicoletta Peyran: daughter Amandine (b. 1990) and son Lowry (b. 1992).
• Parents ran and owned local newspaper in his hometown Benton, Illinois.
• His paternal grandparents, Michael “Mike” Malkovich and Goldie Stanisha, were Croatian. His mother had French, German, Scottish, and English ancestry, and his maternal grandparents were Stephen Choisser and Edna Alice Johnson.
• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#70). [1995]
• Education: Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University.
• The costume he wore in the Annie Lennox video, “Walking On Broken Glass” was borrowed from the set of Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
• Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1984” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 36.

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