John Cusack Quotes (39 Quotes)


    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.

    If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

    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.

    I don't wanna sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't wanna sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed, you know, as a career, I don't wanna do that...right now I just wanna be with your daughter, sir.

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


    I think 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.

    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.

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

    I was never interested in being an overly public person.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Partial Insomniac. Nice Person. Sometimes Brooding. ... Partially inspired. Nice Idea. Sometimes Boring.

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

    We're all kind of God's fools. The process is going to make fools out of all of us, I think fools in the best sense, in the sense of struggling and innocent and vulnerable.

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

    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.

    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.

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

    Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

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

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

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

    Boy, I could go in so many different ways with this answer, ... Let's start with 'Black Irish basket case.' I think we have our headline now for my ad.

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

    I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

    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.


    I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along every time you start something new.


    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.

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

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

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

    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.


    A lot of people are not meant to be together.


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