John Malkovich Quotes

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

I grew up abroad, so I would love to have my child grow up the same way and experience the world.

If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

I would say get to know somebody who isn't exactly like you and doesn't come from the same background as you, educate yourself and then just keep showing up. Finding ways to show up for people and your voice will come out of that relationship and out of your pursuit to seeing people who aren't exactly like you.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.

I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.