Quotes By John Cusack

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

I just love the process of working with other actors.

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.

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 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.

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

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 was never interested in being an overly public person.

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

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

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.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

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.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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