Joan Cusack movie quotes

“If you ever so much as blink in her direction again, I can and will bury you so far in the ground that the heat from the earth's core will incinerate your sorry ass!”

Joan Cusack - Jenny Portman

“- Dewey Finn: You know what? You don't have to worry about me 'cos i'm tough. If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head.
- Rosalie Mullins: No. No, we don't use corporal punishment here.
- Dewey Finn: Okay, so just... verbal abuse?”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Joan Cusack - Rosalie Mullins

“- Jody: Would you like a Pelegrino?
- Chris Macauley: Is that beer?
- Jody: No, it's bottled mineral water.
- Chris Macauley: Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure. Those are really good.
- Jody: You're really sweet. I'll get you a juice.”
Joan Cusack - Jody
Chris O'Donnell - Chris Macauley

“- Joan Carlyle: You can't do this, Case. You're giving up on your dream.
- Casey Carlyle: No, Mom. I'm giving up on your dream. I'm going after mine.”

Joan Cusack - Joan Carlyle
Michelle Trachtenberg - Casey Carlyle

“Six thousand dollars? It's not even leather!”

Joan Cusack - Cyn

“Except for socially, you're my role model.”

Joan Cusack - Blair Litton

“- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You have something against books?
- Hannah Stubbs: I have nothing about books! I am curious about the books in your trunk.
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You see, I was thinking of writing my story, so I bought this one on how to do it.
- Hannah Stubbs: Why do you need 25 copies of it?
- Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Steve Martin - Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli
Joan Cusack - Hannah Stubbs

“Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.”
Joan Cusack - Cyn

“- Melvin Moody: Hey, Shelly. Do you want to go to the movies?
- Shelley: Sure.
- Melvin Moody: Okay, have a good time while you're there.”
Matt Dillon - Moody
Joan Cusack - Shelley

“It's funny how one day can mean so many different things.”
Joan Cusack - Rachel Bitterman

“- Barney Coopersmith: Would you care to bet on that?
- Hannah Stubbs: I never bet when I'm sure and right.
- Barney Coopersmith: Presumably you haven't done a lot of betting considering you've only been wrong once in your life.
- Hannah Stubbs: Twice.”
Rick Moranis - Barney Coopersmith
Joan Cusack - Hannah Stubbs

“- Maggie Carpenter: Who makes these things?
- Peggy Flemming: Calm down. The veil is not attacking you.”

Julia Roberts - Maggie Carpenter
Joan Cusack - Peggy Flemming

“I am over 35-years-old. I am physically unable to bear children. And I pay alimony to my ex-husband, who is a faggot. Yet I am willing to bet that all of you would fuck me over that desk right now if you knew you'd be having lunch with Harrison Ford as soon as you blew your wad.”
Joan Cusack - Fanny Nash

“- Abby Mallard: Hey, remember when that icy blue stuff fell from the sky? Everybody thought it was from space and stuff, and it just turned out to be frozen pee from a jet airplane.
- Runt of the Litter: Yeah, that's right! It's frozen pee. Yeah, it's frozen pee. Pee, pee, pee, pee, pee...”
Joan Cusack - Abby Mallard
Steve Zahn - Runt of the Litter

“A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.”
Joan Cusack

“In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.”
Joan Cusack

“I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.”
Joan Cusack

“- Rex: Mr. Lotso, do toys here get played with every day?
- Lotso: All day long! Five days a week.
- Jessie: But what happens when the kids grow up?
- Lotso: When the kids get old, new ones come in. When they get old, new ones replace them. You'll never be outgrown, or neglected. Never abandoned or forgotten.”
Wallace Shawn - Rex
Ned Beatty - Lotso
Joan Cusack - Jessie

"Working for a dream". That's beautiful. You know, my employees work for salaries.
Joan Cusack - Rachel Bitterman

“- Emily Montgomery: I've seen all your movies.
- Cameron Drake: Both of them?”
Joan Cusack - Emily Montgomery
Matt Dillon - Cameron Drake

“- Jody: Here's what I thought. We finish dinner and then we have desert, 'kay?
- Chris Macauley: Alright.
- Jody: And then after that, I take you for a drive, show you around the city.
- Chris Macauley: Sure.
- Jody: And after that, we come back here. And then, if we still like each other, we make love.”
Joan Cusack - Jody
Chris O'Donnell - Chris Macauley

“- Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl: Let him go! I'm sure his precious Andy is dying to play with a one-armed cowboy doll.
- Stinky Pete the Prospector: Now, Jessie, you know that he wouldn't last an hour on the streets in his condition. It's a dangerous world out there for a toy.”

Joan Cusack - Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl
Kelsey Grammer - Stinky Pete the Prospector

“- Debbie Jellinsky: You know, when I first saw him, I thought he was from Europe.
- Uncle Fester Addams: You did?
- Debbie Jellinsky: It's true.
- Uncle Fester Addams: But, I took a bath.”
Joan Cusack - Debbie Jellinsky
Chris Lloyd - Uncle Fester

“I-I killed. So I maimed. So I destroyed one innocent life after another. Aren't I a human being? Don't I yearn, and ache, and shop? Don't I deserve love... and jewelry?”
Joan Cusack - Debbie Jellinsky

“- Uncle Fester Addams: I'm her husband.
- Debbie Jellinsky: Fester!
- Uncle Fester Addams: Gimme a kiss.
- Debbie Jellinsky: Gimme a twenty.”
Chris Lloyd - Uncle Fester
Joan Cusack - Debbie Jellinsky