John Cusack 1408 Quotes

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence. ~ John Cusack

In the future, there is no future. ~ John Cusack

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. ~ John Cusack

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

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16. ~ John Cusack

I think 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. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like. ~ John Cusack

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you. ~ John Cusack

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day. ~ Renee O'Connor

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

When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story. ~ Lee Daniels

John Cusack is standing over there."
I followed his incredulous gaze to where a man very like Mr. Cusack did indeed stand, smoking a cigarette as he leaned against a building. I sighed.
"That's not John Cusack. That's Jerome."
"Seriously?"
"Yup. I told you he looked like John Cusack."
"Keyword: looked. That guy doesn't look like him. That guy is him. ~ Richelle Mead

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

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck. ~ John Cusack

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

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more. ~ John Cusack

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

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

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. ~ John Cusack

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge. ~ John Cusack

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. ~ Jeremy Piven

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. ~ John Cusack

Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love. ~ John Cusack

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

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

It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. ~ Chuck Klosterman

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. ~ Chuck Klosterman

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it. ~ John Cusack

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

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time. ~ John Cusack

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me. ~ John Cusack

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. ~ John Cusack