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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that. ↗

— John Cusack

#every #holding #holding on #keep #kind

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party. ↗

— John Cusack

#blindly #democracy #duty #feel #getting

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that. ↗

— John Cusack

#face #film #i #i love #just

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. ↗

— John Cusack

#being #done #even #i #i think

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#even #race #rat #rat race #still

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#difficult #difficult time #fright #had #i

I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#am #dad #disciplinarian #fun #i

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like. ↗

— John Cusack

#affair #chemistry #consummate #get #good

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot. ↗

— John Cusack

#again #eternal #fall #figure #get

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

— John Cusack

#films #good #good films #hard #i