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John Cusack
American
Actor
Born:
Jun 28
,
1966
Good
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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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
Love
You
Long
Just Be
Think
OK
Point
Could
Long Process
Get
Just
Where
Love You
Process
Then
Need
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.
John Cusack
Democracy
You
Political
Sorry
Party
Blindly
Duty
Think
Other
Way
Some
Feel
Participate
Participation
Know
Sort
Political Party
Than
Getting
Behind
Just
Want
Process
Mean
Requires
I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
John Cusack
Music
Day
Great
Youth
Late
Music Scene
Definitely
Clash
Some
About
Great Music
Scene
Still
Going
Nostalgic
Whole
I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
John Cusack
Some
Stuff
Like
Gore
Read
The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
John Cusack
Become
Spent
Until
Tall
Person
Different
Stages
Shortness
Ages
Different Stages
Two
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
You
Better
Made
Girl
Impress
Too
Else
Meet
Someone
Something
Guys
Poetry
Could
Shared
Read
Because
Aesthetic
Tapes
Than
Trying
Done
Them
Plane
Awkward
If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.
John Cusack
Me
You
Party
Give
Give Me
Take
Make
Go
Just
Wanna
Afterwards
Award
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
John Cusack
Life
Art
Great
Courage
Fear
Brilliant
Pain
Too
Took
Complex
Kind
Poe
Shame
Wired
Had
He
Terrible
Tight
Terrors
His
Person
Curious
Just
Where
Happened
Them
Turned
Who
Works
Things
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
John Cusack
Love
You
People
Other
Everything
Musician
More
Except
Takes
Lights
Like
Because
Cameras
Effort
Get
Just
Process
Jamming
Place
Little
Working
Actor
I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
John Cusack
Life
People
Walk
My Life
Guess
Philosophy
About
Scene
Like
Hours
Know
Talk
Talking
Around
Get
Mean
Them
Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.
John Cusack
You
People
Remember
Something
Having
Years
Years Ago
Did
Suck
I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.
John Cusack
Music
Great
Superior
Every
Guess
Way
Tried
Liked
She
Deal
Understand
Very
Artist
Listen
Just
Breaker
Really
Working
Hard
Actress
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
Friendship
Me
Technology
Trust
People
Coffee
Other
Besides
Computer
Maintained
Force
Because
Without
Any
Just
Screen
Just Because
Senses
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
Great
Darkness
Think
Resonant
About
Poe
Misery
He
Part
Instinct
Towards
Great Story
Self-Destruction
Wrote
Sorrowful
Because
Goth
Godfather
Represents
Movement
Wants
Story
Literature
Us
Explore
Perverse
Whole
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
Home
Angry
You
Remember
Problems
Girl
Big
Once
Had
Named
Like
Juan
Got
Forehead
Pimple
Been
Acne
Bus
Realized
Really
Should
Apologized
Acting
Cool
Exposing
Her
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack
You
Satire
Criticism
Correct
Absurdity
Get
Going
Politically
Politically Correct
Social
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
Politics
Death
Truth
Mask
Extreme
Kitsch
Taken
Principle
Aesthetic
Fascism
Applied
Core
Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
John Cusack
You
People
Rebellion
Think
Else
Way
Kind
Telling
Would
Except
Well
Always
Existence
Affirm
Up
Itself
Very
Begin
Front
Getting
Going
Maybe
Grain
Form
Wanting
Stories
Against
Acting
Your
Why
A lot of people are not meant to be together.
John Cusack
Together
People
Lot
Meant
Meant To Be
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
Time
You
Evil
Black
Black And White
Looking
White
More
Obligatory
Fact
Stereotypes
Islamic
Terrorist
Any
Stop
Movies
Helpful
Thing
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
John Cusack
Financial
Long
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Like
Being
Movie
Movie Set
Set
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack
Death
You
Business
Law
Gun
Seven
Insane
Kind
License
Totally
Through
Driver
Takes
Days
Pass
Go
Get
Same
Where
Screening
Even
Why
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
Before
Rush
He
Obsessed
Caught
Up
Greatness
Modern
Achieved
Being
Famous
Being Famous
Turning
I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
John Cusack
Action
Feel
Like
Yell
Cut
Need
Filmmaker
I was never interested in being an overly public person.
John Cusack
Never
Overly
Person
Being
Interested
Public
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
John Cusack
Old
Enough
Say
Until
Catholic
Old Enough
Raised
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