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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.
- John Cusack
#Age
#America
#Dark
#Remember
#Time
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
- John Cusack
#Good
#Know
#More
#Selfless
#Would
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
- John Cusack
#Care
#Go
#Never
#Romantic
#See
I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
- John Cusack
#Feel
#Good
#Me
#Play
#Romantic
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.
- John Cusack
#Done
#Me
#Movies
#People
#Thinking
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
#Being Famous
#Famous
#Greatness
#Rush
I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.
- John Cusack
#Never
#Only
#Person
#Talking
#Understand
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
- John Cusack
#Boxing
#Like
#Match
#New
#Something
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
#General
#More
#Movies
#Oxygen
#Up
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
#Better
#Done
#Meet
#Poetry
#Trying
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
- John Cusack
#Acting
#Comedy
#Romantic
#Say
#Yourself
It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
- John Cusack
#Process
#Radical
#Seen
#Something
#Time
I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.
- John Cusack
#Acting
#Cool
#Home
#Problems
#Remember
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
#Art
#Courage
#Fear
#Great
#Life
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
#Back
#Company
#In The End
#Me
#People
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.
- John Cusack
#Again
#Always
#Go
#Happens
#Through
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
#Liar
#Look
#Professional
#Way
#Yourself
My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
- John Cusack
#Good
#Hard
#Illusion
#Point
#Time
Art is spiritual.
- John Cusack
#Art
#Spiritual
I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.
- John Cusack
#Happy
#Night
#Road
#Romantic
#Surprise
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
#Famous
#Live
#Never
#Old Friends
#Work
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
#Christmas
#Future
#Life
#Past
#Time
I am rich enough.
- John Cusack
#Am
#Enough
#I Am
#Rich
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.
- John Cusack
#Action
#Dumb
#End
#More
#Movies
I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
- John Cusack
#Disgusting
#Enough
#Star
#Teen
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
- John Cusack
#Everything
#Life
#Movies
#Practice
#Real
#Try
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
#Movies
#Nice
#People
#Privacy
#See
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
#Clock
#Good People
#Good
#Lie
#Looking
I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple.
- John Cusack
#Angry
#Cool
#Home
#Problems
#Remember
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
#Amazing
#Best
#Fun
#Purpose
#Women
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
#Day
#Great
#Late
#Music
#Youth
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.
- John Cusack
#Darkness
#Great
#Literature
#Story
#Us
I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
- John Cusack
#Long
#Love
#Need
#Point
#Process
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
- John Cusack
#Am
#Because
#Miserable
#Music
#Pop Music
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
- John Cusack
#Feel
#Long Time
#Long
#People
#Sometimes
#Time
Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
- John Cusack
#Am
#I Am
#Open
#Scandals
#Sex
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
- John Cusack
#Death
#Mask
#Politics
#Principle
#Truth
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
- John Cusack
#Coffee
#Friendship
#Just
#Me
#Technology
#Trust
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