John Cusack Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Powerful, Crazy, Thinking

  "A War on Terror by Any Other Name" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Guy, Awkward

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

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  Love Life, Fate, Talking

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• 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.

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  Girl, Home, Acting

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Movies In General, Oxygen, Tents

  "'I'm basically a brand'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2007.

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• It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

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  Process, Radical, Frightening

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• 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.

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  Taken, Principles, Kitsch

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• I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

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  Way, Aspect, Producers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 27, 2007.

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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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  Criticism, Satire, Social

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• I was never interested in being an overly public person.

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  Persons

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• 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.

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  Challenges, Acting, Comedy

  "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

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  Ems, Care, Comedy

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 27, 2007.

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• I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

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  Cutting, Needs, Action

  Interview with Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. April 14, 2003.

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• If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

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  Party, Awards, Giving

  "'I'm basically a brand'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, August 30, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Depressing, War, Dark

  "The Best of Awkward Question Time". Interview With Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

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  People, Hollywood, Asking

  "John Cusack: 'I'm not a scenester. I'm out for a few months, then I disappear", www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

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  Self, Actors, Actresses

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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

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  Intelligent, Thinking, British

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• Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

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  Taken, Looks, Kitsch

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• I never wanted to come off as self-important.

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  Self, Important, Wanted

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• 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.

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  Couple, Character, Dumb

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Self, Darkness

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• 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.

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  Past, People, Ghost

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• 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.

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  Optimistic, Play, Interesting

  "I'm basically a brand" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2007.

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• All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

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  Escaping, Choices, Inevitable

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