John Malkovich Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

  John Malkovich

  Baseball, Football, Father

• My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.

  John Malkovich

  Father, Men, Contradictory

  "A multitude of Malkovich" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

• My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

  John Malkovich

  Strong, Dad, Father

• I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

  John Malkovich

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

• My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

  John Malkovich

  Mother, Memories, Father

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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