John Cusack Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von John Cusack:

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

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

John Cusack

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.

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.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

Art is spiritual.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

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.

John Cusack

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

John Cusack

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple.

John Cusack