John Cusack Quotes

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John Cusack

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 28, 1966

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

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

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I was never interested in being an overly public person.

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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

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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.

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I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

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I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

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It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

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Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

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I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

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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.

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Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

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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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