208 Quotes by John Cusack

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 was raised Irish Catholic, but I don’t consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

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 what that means any more.

Well, any time you do anything good, it’s man versus himself, right? That’s the art, the challenge.

I’m not making any plans. I’m just going to let the universe surprise me.

I think it’s very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I’m ahead or behind the curve, that’s for others to decide.

The elderly have so much to offer. They’re our link with history.

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.