John Cusack

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.”

“Well, 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.”

“I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.”

“Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.”

“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.”

“You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.”

“I was never interested in being an overly public person.”

“I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.”

“My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.”

“If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.”

“If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.”

“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.”