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John Cusack
American
Actor
Born:
Jun 28
,
1966
Good
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
John Cusack
Myself
Me
Consider
Catholic
Irish
Irish Catholic
American
Raised
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
Love
People
Seen
Relationships
About
Invariably
Talk
Print
Talking
Person
Doomed
In Print
Who
Lives
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
John Cusack
People
Song
Try
Past
Holding
Every
Kind
About
Like
Talks
Springsteen
Holding On
Keep
Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
John Cusack
Time
You
People
Sometimes
Long
Long Time
Meet
Feel
Like
Known
Them
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
Success
Good
Money
Only
Attached
Until
Box
Box Office
Makes
Dollar
Office
Figure
Film
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
Work
Time
You
Yourself
Holding
Back
Out
More
Putting
Because
Celebrity
Anything
Interesting
Your
Less
Expose
Watch
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
People
Every
Focused
Would
Would-Be
Horror
Only
Tower
Towers
Perpetual
Camera
Hit
Going
Plane
Planes
Reason
Bin
Consciousness
Image
Second
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
John Cusack
Music
Miserable
Because
Am
Listen
Pop
Pop Music
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
You
Privacy
People
Reading
Nice
Pleasant
Constantly
See
Invaded
About
No Reason
Also
Got
Go
Movies
Your
Reason
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
War
You
Trouble
Strategy
Way
Out
Exact
Exact Opposite
See
Like
Knowing
Without
How
Opposite
Cameras
Exit
Exit Strategy
Get
Rolling
Wanna
Where
Gonna
Should
Acting
Need
I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
John Cusack
War
Time
Me
Problem
Dark
Remember
Cold
Cold War
AIDS
Kind
About
Reagan
Being
Depressing
Homeless
Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
John Cusack
Art
Time
Good
You
Man
Challenge
Well
Himself
Versus
Any
Anything
Right
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
John Cusack
Life
Try
Practice
Real Life
Everything
Something
Real
Reverse
Movies
Then
I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.
John Cusack
Best
You
Thought
Control
Just Be
Way
Best Way
Seemed
Could
Never
Like
Because
Just
Movie
Wanted
Much
Producer
Aspects
Filmmaker
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
John Cusack
Care
See
Never
Like
Comedies
Go
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Really
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
You
Adoration
Through
Adulation
Discarded
Always
Go
Movie
Happens
Movie Star
Again
Then
Cycle
Used
Sequence
Star
No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.
John Cusack
Out
Go
Form
Actor
Actress
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 remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
John Cusack
Time
Age
Dark
Remember
Punk
Made
Glorious
Sense
Everybody
Air
Punk Rock
Administration
Dark Time
Some
Also
Rock
Reagan
Coming
Coming Of Age
Very
America
Movement
Being
Which
Apocalypse
Painted
Element
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
Time
Me
Trapped
Every
Every Time
Back
Through
Cable
Almost
Like
Comic
Real
Very
Getting
Which
Flip
Nightmare
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