John Cusack quotes - page 4

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)
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme. View quote
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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something. View quote
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My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time. View quote
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The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent. View quote
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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. (John Cusack)
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em. View quote
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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. View quote
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The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. View quote
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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. View quote
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