208 Quotes by John Cusack

I guess maybe I’m idealistic.

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.

I’ve seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they’re talking about.

My point was that it’s hard to make good films, but I’m not under any illusion that you do all the time.

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.

But no, I don’t really like romantic comedies, so I don’t really care. I never go see ’em.

I don’t agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what’s important to me is clear.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That’s why they give you the part.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they’re very intelligent.