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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack
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John Cusack
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 28
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I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
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All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.
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I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
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I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
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Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
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