John Cusack Quotes
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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I have a lot of respect for the careers of the players. They are with us, they are with me, and I treat them like professionals.
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I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
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I care about my work, but I don't care about getting it wrong. The more you do, the more you realise nobody's going to die.
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I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
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'Community' gets to be the indie movie, while a 'Modern Family' gets to be the big blockbuster release. They service that big massive audience, and we service a smaller audience. But we get a lot of creative freedom.
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
