Forever doomed to watch the world through someone else's eyes.
Craig Schwartz
John Cusack · 11 quotes
Maxine Lund
Catherine Keener · 7 quotes
Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen · 6 quotes
Dr. Lester
Orson Bean · 4 quotes
Lotte Schwartz
Cameron Diaz · 4 quotes
John Malkovich
John Malkovich · 3 quotes
John M.
3 quotes
Most scenes together: Craig Schwartz & Maxine Lund (3), Charlie Sheen & John M. (2)
Being John Malkovich quotes
Page 1 of 2I've fallen in love, and this is what people who've fallen in love look like!
Well, you picked the unrequited variety. It's very bad for the skin.
There's a tiny door in that empty office. It's a portal, Maxine. It takes you inside John Malkovich. You see the world through John Malkovich's eyes, then, after about fifteen minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of The New Jersey Turnpike.
Sounds delightful. Who the **** is John Malkovich?
He's an actor. One of the great American actors of the 20th century.
What's he been in?
Lots of things. He's very well respected. That jewel thief movie, for example. The point is that this is a very odd thing, supernatural, for lack of a better word. It raises all sorts of philosophical questions about the nature of self, about the existence of the soul. Am I me? Is Malkovich Malkovich? Was the Buddha right, is duality an illusion? Do you see what a can of worms this portal is? I don't think I can go on living my life as I have lived it. There's only one thing to do. Let's get married right away.
Ah, tell me Lotte, can you understand a word I'm saying?!
Oh yes, Dr. Lester, absolutely. You were just explaining the, um, nutritional value of ingesting minerals through a colloidal form, which I personally couldn't agree more with.
Oh, be still my heart!
Any questions?
Well, just one. Why are these ceilings so low?
Low overhead my boy! We pass the savings onto you! Hahaha!
Floris! Get Guinness on the phone!
Floris Ah, yes sir, Genghis Kahn Capone. Fine.
Damn fine woman, Floris. I don't know how she puts up with this speech impediment of mine.
Charlie, I don't know anything about the girl, man! She could be like a **** witch or something!
That's even better! Hot lesbian witches! Think about it! It's **** genius!
I have been to the dark side and back! I have seen a world that no man should see!
Really? For most people, it's a rather pleasant experience.
The...this...the weird thing is this Maxine likes to call me Lottie.
Ouch! That is hot! Maybe she's using you to channel some dead lesbian lover...Sounds like my kind of gal! Let me know when you're done with her, yeah?
What are you talking about, done with her? Tonight really freaked me out!
For the first time, everything just felt right.
It's just a phase. It's the thrill of seeing through somebody else's eyes.
You are so full of shit Maxine!
I know.
So I've been thinking...Is this Malkovich fellow appealing?
Maxine! Yes, of course, Maxine. He's a celebrity.
Good. We'll sell tickets!
Tickets to Malkovich?
Exactly! $200 a pop!
Behind the stubble and the too-prominent brow and the male-pattern baldness... I sensed your feminine longing. And it just slew me.
Do you have any idea what it's like to have two people look at you, with total lust and devotion, through the same pair of eyes?
Do you see what a metaphysical can of worms this portal is?