John Cusack movie quotes

“- Anastasia: You think you're gonna miss it?
- Dimitri: Miss what? Your talking?
- Anastasia: No! Russia.
- Dimitri: Nope.
- Anastasia: But it was your home.
- Dimitri: It was a place I once lived. End of story.”
Meg Ryan - Anastasia
John Cusack - Dimitri

“- Brian: I'm not married anymore.
- Melinda Ledbetter: [Speaking in a near whisper] Okay.”
John Cusack - Old Brian
Elizabeth Banks - Melinda Ledbetter

“- Dr. Oatman: Martin, I'm emotionally involved with you.
- Martin Q. Blank: How are you emotionally involved with me?
- Dr. Oatman: I'm afraid of you.”
Alan Arkin - Dr. Oatman
John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“- Rob Gordon: You have great lingerie, but you also have the cotton underwear that's been washed a thousand times, and it's hanging on the thing and, and they have it too! It's just I don't have to see it because it's not in the fantasy. Do you understand? I'm tired of the fantasy because it doesn't really exist. And there are never really any...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Cusack - Rob Gordon
Iben Hjejle - Laura

“Remember, there's nowhere you can go that you haven't learned how to go in time. Whatever the hell that means.”
John Cusack - Marcella

“- Grocer: And after we do your job, we're gonna do another little job.
- Martin Q. Blank: Tell me about it.
- Grocer: Like I'm gonna put a bullet hole in your fuckin' forehead, and I'm gonna fuck the brain hole!
- Martin Q. Blank: Nice talk, sugar mouth.”
Dan Aykroyd - Grocer
John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar.”
John Cusack

“People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.”
John Cusack

“I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.”
John Cusack

“If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.”
John Cusack

“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.”
John Cusack

“Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.”
John Cusack

“- Alfred Austrian: Their names may not sound familiar, but I'd say that these men are the Ty Cobb, the Tris Speaker, and the Zack Wheat of the legal world.
- Buck Weaver: Who's the Babe Ruth?
- Alfred Austrian: That's me.”

Michael Laskin - Alfred Austrian
John Cusack - George "Buck" Weaver

“How can you be in love with someone and not even like them at the same time?”
John Cusack - Eddie Thomas

“- Jenny Myer: Hello, Lane. How was your day?
- Lane Myer: Beth broke up with me.
- Jane Myer: Oh, that's nice.”
Kim Darby - Jenny Myer
John Cusack - Lane Myer

“- Helen Sinclair: Two martinis please, very dry.
- David Shayne: How'd you know what I drank?
- Helen Sinclair: Oh, you want one too? Three.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
John Cusack - David Shayne

“- Jack: I got shot.
- Rivka: In the hand?
- Jack: Yeah.
- Rivka: Why?
- Jack: Because I'm lucky like that.
- Rivka: Did they miss your heart or they couldn't find it?”
John Cusack - Jack
Rebecca Da Costa - Rivka

“- Myra Langtry: I'm Roy's friend.
- Lilly Dillon: Yes. I imagine you're lots of people's friend.
- Myra Langtry: Oh, of course, now that I see you in the light, you're plenty old enough to be Roy's mother.
- Lilly Dillon: Aren't we all?
- Roy Dillon: Play nice. Don't fight.”

Annette Bening - Myra Langtry
Anjelica Huston - Lilly Dillon
John Cusack - Roy Dillon

“With friends like you, who needs enemas?”
John Cusack - Charles Ossining

“- Harry: Nice dog.
- Natty Gann: It's a wolf.”
John Cusack - Harry
Meredith Salenger - Natty Gann

“How many of them really know what they want, though? I mean, a lot of them think they have to know, right? But inside they don't really know, so... I don't know, but I know that I don't know.”

John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler

“- David Shayne: Maybe Olive's got stage fright. Maybe she won't show.
- Julian Marx: Not Olive. That dame doesn't have a nerve in her body. I don't think her spinal cord touches her brain.”
John Cusack - David Shayne
Jack Warden - Julian Marx

“- Monique Junot: I figured if we had nothing to say to each other he would get bored; go away. But instead he uses it as an excuse to put his testicles all over me.
- Lane Myer: Excuse me?
- Monique Junot: You know, like octopus? Testicles?
- Lane Myer: Ohhhh. Tentacles. N-t. Tentacles; big difference.”

John Cusack - Lane Myer
Diane Frankin - Monique Junot

“- Vladimir: She certainly has a mind of her own.
- Dimitri: Yeah. I hate that in a woman.”

Kelsey Grammer - Vladimir
John Cusack - Dimitri

“- Helen Sinclair: Make love to me.
- David Shayne: Here? Now?
- Helen Sinclair: I see no reason to wait.
- David Shayne: Jerome Kern is on the other side of the door.
- Helen Sinclair: Yes, he's a wonderful composer. You'll have to meet him. Now hang up your pants.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
John Cusack - David Shayne