You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
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… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
