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John Malkovich Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“I have decided not to choose. Not choosing being the only thing at which I truly excel.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Paralysis, Indecision
“My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Grief, When Words Fail
“Anything that can be upgraded, like an iPhone, ends up in the bin, only to be replaced by a more expensive model. The Bible has endured for a very long time, and its value has changed a little, if at all. Because it can't be upgraded.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: The Bible, The Old
“Someday we will all come to appreciate the beauty of sacrifice.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Sacrifice
“Religion is a narrative story that is told, an incredibly successful story. Seeing that God is the most popular protagonist in history. I would never have been satisfied devoting my life to minor narratives as I found in literature, film, music. Those at best can only be enjoyable pastimes.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Religion
“William 'Billy Bedlam' Bedford: You lost your mind?

Cyrus Grissom: According to my last psych evaluation, yes.”
— Cyrus Grissom, Con Air
Tagged: Prison Movies, psych eval
“It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological and what is pathological in the body of the Church.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Catholic Church, Nature vs. Corruption
“I have a drinking problem? Fuck you, Peck, you're a Mormon. Compared to you we ALL have a drinking problem!”
— Osborne Cox, Burn After Reading
Tagged: Drinking Problem, Fuck You, Mormon
“No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Abstract Response To Concrete Hatred , My Philosophy
“Never should have quit drinking.”
— Piers, Velvet Buzzsaw
Tagged: Alcohol, Regret
“This is a slaughterhouse.”
— Piers, Velvet Buzzsaw
Tagged: slaughterhouse, Blood
“Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realize that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say.”
— Vicomte de Valmont, Dangerous Liaisons
Tagged: Love, In love, Fall in love, Confession, Confession of Love, Confession of Feelings
“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 as certain as the grave. We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory... but our memory will neither blur nor fade.”
— F. W. Murnau, Shadow of the Vampire
Tagged: Battle, struggles, Art, grave, Poetry
“You will come to me and you will tell me all this suffering in the world. And I will say to you: they are all hysterias of love. Distortions of our ability to love. The problem, brothers, is love. The question, then, is: how are we to love? This is my way: with tenderness, without passion. Passion is the eternal enemy of humility. Christian humility, which is frugal, is just and is necessary. Love is an abstraction, like intelligence, like happiness. Every time our judgment is beclouded by the ardent passions that consume us, we give love a dangerous concreteness, a scandalous concreteness, an illegal concreteness. In short, we are causing pain. To ourselves, and to others. Replace that concrete love with tenderness.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Distortions of Love , Love Is An Abstraction
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