John Cusack Quotes
Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
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My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.
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Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.
