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

John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

John Cusack

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

John Cusack

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

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

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

John Cusack

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

John Cusack

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

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I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

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I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as ...

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Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

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Well anything thats interesting in a film, or in a character (all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that) comes from that part of you that you want to hide and push away, and you want to deny all those things most. So if you can sort...

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If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the...

John Cusack

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

John Cusack

We torture for profit. You can't get any lower than that.

John Cusack

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

John Cusack

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

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.

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Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

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Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

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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