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John Cusack

I kept saying that Id never live in L.A., and I didnt think I would. But thats where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when youre famous, its hard to live in a small town. – John Cusack

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the 50s and 60s and 70s. – 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 shouldnt be acting like Don Juan. – John Cusack

Death is a billion-dollar business. They cant even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why dont you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a drivers license? Its totally insane. – John Cusack

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. Theyre the best girls in the world – theyre loyal and fun, but when they get mad, theyll try to kill you. – John Cusack

Theres 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

I have a bit of a rebellious nature. – John Cusack

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted. – John Cusack

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life. – John Cusack

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. – John Cusack

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. – John Cusack