John Cusack

“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.”

— 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

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

— John Cusack

“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.”

— 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 was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.”

— John Cusack

“With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— John Cusack

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

— 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 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

“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

“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.”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— John Cusack

“Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— 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.”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— John Cusack