Joan Cusack Quotes

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

Joan Cusack

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• People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Man

• My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Money
  • Priority

• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Me
  • Helps

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Day
  • Opinion

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Moon
  • Tomorrow

• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Training

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Friend
  • Like
  • Street

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• I don't think limits.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Limits

• New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Forgiveness

• Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • She
  • Character

• It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • She
  • Fun

• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Kids

• I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Meaningful