Joan Cusack

You're curious about someone, or why they're doing what they're doing. Because everyone who gets to work in this field is so…

— Joan Cusack

My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the…

— Joan Cusack

It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago…

— Joan Cusack

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm…

— Joan Cusack

The fact of the matter is, if you have to have a process, I think, to figure out how to make everything…

— Joan Cusack

I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids…

— Joan Cusack

I'm interested in acting roles that I want to do, that are meaningful to me in some way. I think, because my…

— Joan Cusack

I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.

— Joan Cusack

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that…

— Joan Cusack

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

— Joan Cusack

It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

— Joan Cusack

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. And good…

— Joan Cusack

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

— Joan Cusack

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or…

— Joan Cusack

I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it…

— Joan Cusack

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the…

— Joan Cusack

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's…

— Joan Cusack

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge…

— Joan Cusack

I can't imagine being a single parent, or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge…

— Joan Cusack

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and…

— Joan Cusack

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

— Joan Cusack

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn…

— Joan Cusack

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone…

— Joan Cusack

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they…

— Joan Cusack

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there…

— Joan Cusack