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John Cusack

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 28, 1966

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

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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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I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

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It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

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I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

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Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

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Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

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I am rich enough.

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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.

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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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The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

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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.

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I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

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With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

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Art is spiritual.

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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.

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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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