Quotes By John Cusack

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

I am rich enough.

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

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

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.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

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.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

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.

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

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.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

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.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

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.

Art is spiritual.

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

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.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

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

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

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

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.

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 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.