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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

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 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

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable. ↗

— John Cusack

#entire #everyone #god #hair #high-school

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end. ↗

— John Cusack

#characters #couple #dumb #end #explosions

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen. ↗

— John Cusack

#eat #fewer #general #got #making

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence. ↗

— John Cusack

#affirm #against #always #begin #else

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#bound #constitution #deciding #dictate #house

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#accepting #additions #constitution #coupled #deemed