John Cusack Quotes

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

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.

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.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

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.

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

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 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.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

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.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

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

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

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

We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them out. If they don't want to stand up for the rule of law, then I'm not a Democrat.

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

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.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

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

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.