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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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

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

John Cusack

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

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 ...

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

John Cusack

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

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

John Cusack

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

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

John Cusack

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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

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

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