Top 100 Cusack Quotes
#1. John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.
Nora Dunn
#2. I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.
Cecily Strong
#3. And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?"
"John Cusack," I corrected. "He looks like John Cusack."
"Whatever.
Richelle Mead
#4. It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker.
Chuck Klosterman
#5. This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.
Spike Lee
#6. John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
Jeremy Piven
#7. I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.
Amanda Peet
#8. I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
Renee O'Connor
#9. I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
Chuck Klosterman
#10. When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
Lee Daniels
#11. Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.
Rachel McAdams
#12. When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.
Ray Liotta
#13. Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack
#14. I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
Joan Cusack
#15. Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
John Cusack
#16. I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
Joan Cusack
#17. You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
Joan Cusack
#18. I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago ... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
John Cusack
#19. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
John Cusack
#20. If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack
#21. I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
Joan Cusack
#22. The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
John Cusack
#23. It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.
Joan Cusack
#24. Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.
John Cusack
#25. I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
Joan Cusack
#26. I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
John Cusack
#27. My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
John Cusack
#28. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.
John Cusack
#29. You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.
John Cusack
#30. Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
Cyril Cusack
#31. Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
Joan Cusack
#32. People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
John Cusack
#33. In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.
Cyril Cusack
#34. 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.
John Cusack
#35. Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.
Cyril Cusack
#36. I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
Cyril Cusack
#37. I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
Joan Cusack
#38. I never wanted to come off as self-important.
John Cusack
#39. I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.
Cyril Cusack
#40. Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.
Joan Cusack
#41. The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.
John Cusack
#42. It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
John Cusack
#43. All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There's no escaping the inevitable.
John Cusack
#45. I think America has a bad rap right now ... and hopefully Obama will change that.
Joan Cusack
#46. The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.
John Cusack
#47. Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
John Cusack
#48. I was never interested in being an overly public person.
John Cusack
#49. A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.
Joan Cusack
#50. The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
John Cusack
#52. If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
Cyril Cusack
#53. If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
John Cusack
#54. I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
John Cusack
#55. I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
John Cusack
#56. I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
John Cusack
#57. I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
John Cusack
#58. I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.
Joan Cusack
#59. It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
John Cusack
#60. It's important to being a healthy person. So while you're here on the earth, you might as well enjoy it. And it's hard to enjoy things when you're crazy.
Joan Cusack
#61. Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
John Cusack
#62. I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
Joan Cusack
#63. New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack
#64. I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.
Joan Cusack
#65. I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it is such a great feeling to really love something.
Joan Cusack
#66. Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.
John Cusack
#67. I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
John Cusack
#68. Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
John Cusack
#69. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.
John Cusack
#70. 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.
John Cusack
#71. The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
John Cusack
#72. I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.
John Cusack
#73. 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.
John Cusack
#74. I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.
John Cusack
#75. There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack
#76. I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
Joan Cusack
#77. 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.
John Cusack
#78. Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
John Cusack
#79. You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.
Joan Cusack
#80. I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
John Cusack
#81. We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.
Joan Cusack
#82. Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.
Joan Cusack
#83. Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.
Joan Cusack
#84. I am a nationalist ... my native soil is the theatre.
Cyril Cusack
#85. 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.
John Cusack
#86. When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.
John Cusack
#87. You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
John Cusack
#88. I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
John Cusack
#89. A lot of people are not meant to be together.
John Cusack
#90. Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
John Cusack
#91. I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.
John Cusack
#92. My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.
John Cusack
#93. I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
John Cusack
#94. If there had been a little less home dissension, there would have been a great deal less foreign oppression.
Mary Frances Cusack
#95. If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really
to keep looking at the world in the right way.
John Cusack
#96. 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.
John Cusack
#97. I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
John Cusack
#98. I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
John Cusack
#100. The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.
John Cusack
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