Quotes from John Cusack

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

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.

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.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

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

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.