84 Quotes by Joan Cusack

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you’re trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

Because 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 do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

I tend to come from a more psychological – that’s sort of my passion. I’m interested in the psychology of politics as well – and obviously I’m interested in what’s going on in the world – but my passion is more the psychology of people.

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 what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

A lot of women get out of the business because it’s so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don’t do it, ’cause they’re smart and get out.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it’s all so hard.

You know, I think I’m more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

Maybe I’m more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

It’s incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.