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John Cusack
American
Actor
About the author
The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#American
#Irish
I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Relationships
#Talk
#Love
#People
#Talking
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Criticism
#Absurdity
#Satire
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Love
#People
#Pretty
#Men
#Movies
#Women
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Extreme
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#Boxing
Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Open
#Sex
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Time
#People
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Film
#Success
#Money
#Office
The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Time
#Work
#Celebrity
The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#People
#Reason
#Consciousness
#Murder
#Horror
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#People
#Will
#Reason
#Lie
#Lying
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#People
#Play
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Death
#Truth
#Politics
#Fascism
#Extreme
#Aesthetics
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Old
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#People
#Past
#Song
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Being
#Crisis
#Financial
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Time
#Evil
#Movies
#Fact
I was never interested in being an overly public person.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Public
#Being
A lot of people are not meant to be together.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#People
Art is spiritual.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Art
#Spiritual
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Death
#Law
#Business
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Music
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#People
#Actors
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Being
#Famous
#Greatness
I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Nature
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Satire
I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Love
#Film
#Movies
I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Teen
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#People
#Actors
I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Time
#Work
#Celebrity
I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Action
I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
John Cusack,
American
Actor
#Love