"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."

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Source : "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

John Cusack

#War Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.”
“It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.”
“Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."”
“I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.”
“Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing.”

Source : John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”
“What I donâ€™t like are arrogant people. Weâ€™re all equal. I donâ€™t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a little. There are a lot of people like that, but the world keeps turning.Â I also donâ€™t like lies. Iâ€™m very honest. Iâ€™m always going to tell the truth. I donâ€™t lie. I treat my friends the way I want to be treated.”
“Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.”
“I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.”

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