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

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American - Actor Born: June 28, 1966

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

Financial, Long, Crisis

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, Friends, Old Friends

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

People, Play, Just

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, Technology

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

I Am, Sex, Open

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. John Cusack

Time, Age, America

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

Criticism, You, Satire

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. John Cusack

Great, Summer, Movies

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

Greatness, Famous, Up

I have a bit of a rebellious nature. John Cusack

Nature, Rebellious, Bit

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

Me, Think, Intelligent

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence. John Cusack

People, Think, Acting

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, Purpose

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, Losing, People

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

Good, Girl, Friend

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. John Cusack

Life, Time, Future

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

Good, Lie, People

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

Teen, Star, Enough

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

Together, People, Lot

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, Black And White, Evil

Art is spiritual. John Cusack

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, Law

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, People, You

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

Action, Feel, Cut

I guess maybe I'm idealistic. John Cusack

Maybe, Guess, Idealistic

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

Great, Movies, Satire

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