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.
Quote by John Cusack
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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.
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John Cusack Quotes
- I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
- I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
- 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.
- 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.
- I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
- Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
- I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
- If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
- Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.