John Cusack Quotes

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I've seen in movies, rather than 'here's my version of Clint Eastwood' or whoever.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.