John Cusack Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Cusack
John Cusack Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.
The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.
You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.
I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.
I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
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.
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
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.
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.
The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
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.
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.