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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. — John Cusack

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you. — John Cusack

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. — John Cusack

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time. — John Cusack

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers! — John Cusack

Simple stories ... emerge as lovely films or television pieces. — Cyril Cusack

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on. — John Cusack

John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time. — Nora Dunn

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff. — John Cusack

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. — Cyril Cusack

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut. — John Cusack

When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot. — Ray Liotta

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge. — John Cusack

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick. — Joan Cusack

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do. — Joan Cusack

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. — Joan Cusack

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more. — Cyril Cusack

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity. — Cyril Cusack

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically. — Cyril Cusack

I love the theatre and theatre people. — Cyril Cusack

A lot of people are not meant to be together. — John Cusack

I guess maybe I'm idealistic. — John Cusack

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. — John Cusack

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life. — John Cusack

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting. — Cyril Cusack

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck. — John Cusack

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? — John Cusack

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers. — John Cusack

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made. — Joan Cusack

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in. — Joan Cusack

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though. — John Cusack

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard. — Joan Cusack

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. — Cyril Cusack

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no. — John Cusack

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that. — John Cusack

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack. — Amanda Peet

Art is spiritual. — John Cusack

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days. — John Cusack

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. — Joan Cusack

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person. — John Cusack

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it. — Joan Cusack

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am. — Cyril Cusack

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part. — John Cusack

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage! — John Cusack

In the future, there is no future. — John Cusack

If there had been a little less home dissension, there would have been a great deal less foreign oppression. — Mary Frances Cusack

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. — Chuck Klosterman

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16. — John Cusack

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

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign. — John Cusack

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em. — John Cusack

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful. — Joan Cusack

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical. — John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person. — John Cusack

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough. — John Cusack

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history. — John Cusack

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world. — Cyril Cusack

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day. — Renee O'Connor

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious. — Joan Cusack

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. — Jeremy Piven

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something. — John Cusack

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing. — Cyril Cusack

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme. — John Cusack

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time. — John Cusack

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There's no escaping the inevitable. — John Cusack

I am a nationalist ... my native soil is the theatre. — Cyril Cusack

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well. — Cecily Strong

It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful. — Joan Cusack

I have a bit of a rebellious nature. — John Cusack

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me. — John Cusack

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. — John Cusack

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

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. — John Cusack

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. — Joan Cusack

I think America has a bad rap right now ... and hopefully Obama will change that. — Joan Cusack

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis. — John Cusack

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

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days. — Cyril Cusack

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards. — John Cusack

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt. — Joan Cusack

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. — John Cusack

I was rather a fat little boy. — Cyril Cusack

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there. — Joan Cusack

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed. — John Cusack

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task. — Cyril Cusack

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. — John Cusack

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation. — John Cusack

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted. — John Cusack

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. — John Cusack

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack

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. — John Cusack

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

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one. — John Cusack

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent. — John Cusack

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

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. — John Cusack

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. — John Cusack

I never wanted to come off as self-important. — John Cusack

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