Quotes by John Cusack

About John Cusack:

John Paul Cusack is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in High Fidelity (2000).
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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

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

John Cusack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

John Cusack

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

John Cusack

Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

John Cusack

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

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'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 just love the process of working with other actors.

John Cusack

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these peop...

John Cusack

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 ...

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Cusack
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, producer, screenwriter and puppeteer
  • BornJune 28, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Producer; Voice Actor; Blogger; Writer