John Cusack Quotes

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

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
John Cusack

Women, Best, Amazing

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

Love, Long, Point

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

Together, Meant

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

Music, Miserable, Listen

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

Enough, Old, Until

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

Yourself, Judge, Bad

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

Business, Death, Through

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
John Cusack

Movies, Nice, Reason

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

Time, Movies, Evil

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

Famous, Before, Greatness

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

Teen, Enough, Star

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

American, Irish, Consider

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

Social, Criticism, Correct

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

Time, Process, Seen

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

Past, Try, Keep

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

Work, Time, Yourself

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
John Cusack

Powerful, May, Position

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

Romantic, Yourself, Pretty

Art is spiritual.
John Cusack

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

Crisis, Long, Movie

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

Romantic, Care, Comedies

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
John Cusack

Sorry, Political, Mean

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

Yourself, Give, Why

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
John Cusack

Time, Real, Through

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 28, 1966

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