John Cusack Quotes

American - Actor Born: June 28, 1966

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, Coffee, Trust

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, Selfless, You, Know, Goal, More

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, Me, Cold, Homeless, Problem

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot. John Cusack

Love, Women, Men, People, Me, You

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

Me, Award, You, Go, Party, Just

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. John Cusack

Truth, Politics, Death, Mask, Fascism

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, Live, Old Friends, Small, Famous

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you. John Cusack

Romantic, Happy, Night, Road, Think, You

I have a bit of a rebellious nature. John Cusack

Nature, Rebellious, Bit

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

Democracy, Sorry, Process, Feel, Think

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, You, Acting, Kind, Way

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence. John Cusack

You, Go, Always, Cycle, Star, Again

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

Person, Tall, Two, Become, Different

Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there. John Cusack

Love, Great, Time, People, Me, Story

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. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple. John Cusack

Home, Girl, Angry, Cool, Problems, You

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

Together, People, Meant To Be, Lot

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, Social, Get

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, Looking, Good People

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

Teen, Enough, Star, Disgusting

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, Black, Evil, You

Art is spiritual. John Cusack

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

Financial, Long, Crisis, Like, Being

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, Gun, You, Kind

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, Chemistry, See, Like

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, Rush, Modern, He

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

Action, Feel, Need, I Feel Like, Like

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