John Cusack Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
John Cusack Quotes and Sayings
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A lot of people are not meant to be together.
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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.
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Art is spiritual.
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Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
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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.
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Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
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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.
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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.
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I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
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I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
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I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
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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.
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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.
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I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
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I was never interested in being an overly public person.
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I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
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I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
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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.
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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
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Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
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The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
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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.
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