John Cusack Quotes

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

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• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Wall
  • Trump
  • Down

• Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Music
  • Action
  • Memories

• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mistake

• Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Internet

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Believe
  • May
  • Government

• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Forget

• I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Good
  • Art
  • Power

• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Art
  • Learn
  • Performance

• I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

  

  Richie Allen
  • Except
  • Philadelphia

• Michael Jackson did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them

  

  Corey Feldman
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • People
  • Hope
  • Stop

• I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

  

  Common
  • People
  • Music
  • Remember

• We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook them in with Naked Beggars songs. But we do a few Cinderella songs.

  

  Jeff LaBar Cinderella
  • People
  • Songs
  • Name

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

  

  John Cusack
  • People