John Cusack Quotes
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Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
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I just love the process of working with other actors.
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Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
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Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.
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If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.
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I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
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I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in 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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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
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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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Art is spiritual.
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Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
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I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
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I was never interested in being an overly public person.
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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.
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I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
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Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
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I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
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Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.
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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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If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.
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Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.