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John Cusack Biography

John Paul Cusack (/ˈkjuːsæk/; born June 28, 1966) is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He began acting on films during the 1980s. Cusack was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in High Fidelity (2000). Other films include Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999), Con Air (1997) (also starring John Malkovich), 1408 (2007), 2012 (2009), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), and The Raven (2012).

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I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

Couple, Like, Night, Romantic, Thinking

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

Aware, Best Job, Jobs, Probably, Vision

In the future, there is no future.

Future

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

Interested, Overly, Person, Persons, Public

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. You can push it through, and you can hire the right people.

Filmmaker, People, Producers, Push, Right, Thought

These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

Levels, Markets, Needs, Pay, People, Protectionist

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.

Alchemical, Art, Brilliant, Happened, Life, Pain

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

Aging, Elderly, History, Links, Offer

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

Due, Frightening, Process, Radical, Time

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.

Applied, Core, Fascism, Kitsch, Principles, Taken

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.

Keys, Like, Mean, Philosophy, Scene, Walk

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Bits, Nature, Rebellious

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

Days, Know, Liars, Lying, Start, Time

Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

Borders, Military, Prisoner, Turned, War

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

Bed, Islam, Like, Lovers, Radical

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

Come, Important, Self, Wanted

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

Good, Interesting, Optimistic, Play, Reached

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

Films, Ones, Saw, Talking, Teenager, Years

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

Powerful, Crazy, Thinking, Investigated, Washington

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.

America, Coming, Dark, Glorious, Movement, Rocks

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