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If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence. ↗

— John Cusack

#adulation #again #always #cycle #discarded

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#because #better #could #done #else

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something. ↗

— John Cusack

#boxing match #fellini #hollywood #like #match

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers. ↗

— John Cusack

#concerned #course #his #i #i think

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16. ↗

— John Cusack

#become #different #i #person #shortness

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#celebrity #deal #fear #females #i

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do. ↗

— John Cusack

#always #any #being #days #i

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#cameras #exact #exact opposite #exit #exit strategy

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#also #applies #apt #breathless #clearly