John Cusack Quotes

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  Democrats: Do have ANY thoughts on Obama’s transition from a progressive academic Humanist, to a regressive Corporatist warlord?

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• Art is spiritual.

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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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• Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

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• 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.

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• The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people’s consciousness.

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• The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you’re putting yourself out there all the time, you’re not holding anything back.

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• 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.

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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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• Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you’ve known them for a long time.

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

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• Nope, no s*x scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

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• New York’s like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it’s like a Fellini movie or something.

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

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• It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don’t know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

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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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• 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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• I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don’t consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

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• I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

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

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John Cusack (35)

Birth:	28th June, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Producer, Screenwriter

About

John Paul Cusack was born in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He studied at New York University. He began acting on films during the 1980s. His role in several films include: Class, Sixteen Candles, One Crazy Summer, Eight Men Out, The Grifters, Bullets over Broadway, Grosse Pointe Blank (also writer), Con Air, Pushing Tin, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity (also writer, Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), Serendipity, Max, Grace Is Gone (also producer), 1408, War, Inc. (also co-writer, producer), Hot Tub Time Machine (also producer), The Raven, The Butler, Maps to the Stars, Love & Mercy, and Singularity. His role in television, including The Jack Bull (TV film).

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