Quotes By John Cusack

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

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

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.

I think 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. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

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.

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.

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 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.