A biography for John Cusackhasn’t been written yet.
“A lot of people are not meant to be together.”
“It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.”
“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.”
“I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.”
“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.”
“It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.”
“Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.”
“Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.”
“Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!”
“I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.”
“Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.”
“Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.”
“Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.”
“With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.”
“Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?”
“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.”
“I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.”
“I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.”
“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.”
“I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.”