I think theres nothing better than laughing in life, so thats nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. Its cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And thats fine. – Joan Cusack
I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. – Joan Cusack
Its nice to be able to work Id love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. Its hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if youre not there you cant do any of it. – Joan Cusack
I play- its kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of whats their friendship like, and whats their life like and so I just play one of the four friends. – Joan Cusack
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre