John Cusack Quotes

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

Good, Chemistry, Affair

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

Good, Goal, Older

I am rich enough.
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

Good, Moral, Authority

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

Movies, Hard, Small

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
John Cusack

Good, Romantic, Him

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

Action, Cut, Filmmaker

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
John Cusack

Friendship, Trust, Coffee

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
John Cusack

Maybe, Guess, Idealistic

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
John Cusack

Nature, Bit, Rebellious

I just love the process of working with other actors.
John Cusack

Love, Working, Process

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
John Cusack

Work, Famous, Live

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

Great, Movies, Social

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

Love, Movies, Film

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

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

Read, Stuff, Gore

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.
John Cusack

Home, Cool, Girl

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

Time, War, Remember

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
John Cusack

Movies, Thinking, Done

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

Good, Actually, Chemistry

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

Work, Time, Yourself

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

Past, Person, Try

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.
John Cusack

Best, Control, Thought

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

Person, Public, Interested

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
John Cusack

Movies, School, Before

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 28, 1966

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