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Quotes about celebration
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“I made a number of pictures, strictly C-pictures that were done on small budgets with a crackerjack director and actor who's now dead, Hugo Haas.” (Cusack John)
“I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren.” (Cusack John)
“It was Elvis, and they were going to have a party or something... So he came over to the house and... whoever was at the house knew that Elvis was coming over, so they were hiding behind the curtain. My father was out watering the garden. And he would always ask me to sing, and he'd want to sing harmony. And it was all very exciting.” (Cusack John)
“We saw Elvis, and he was so happy to see us. And he loved the whole idea that we were going to run away. We were going to steal him. But it never happened... He went into a room... I'm sure there are a lot of drugs taken, and it turned into an hour and a half, and he came out and said... that was that. And I knew that he was gone. He was out of reach to us and made me very sad.” (Cusack John)
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It is this combination of seeing Michael Jackson, of being suspicious of so many things around him, and at the same time, having seen what may have created him that haunts us. (Cusack John)
Get a group of very well-known people together and let them view movies that are coming out. (Cusack John)
I believe in celebrating people, even though not everybody deserves to be. But those who do, I want to celebrate them. (Cusack John)
I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide. (Cusack John)
At God Parties, we do get some celebrities. We get some studio executives, we get gang kids. We get the whole pot, the whole mixture. (Cusack John)
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. (Cusack John)
“Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.” (Cusack John)
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. (Cusack John)
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew. (Cusack John)
For Miss Dietrich, I dressed in my very best. (Cusack John)
Between them, the films of Julie Christie and Alan Bates taught me everything I needed to know about sex at the age of 13. (Cusack John)
All I wanted to do was play Conrad Birdie; I really wanted to be like the Elvis Presley guy, and they ended up giving me the lead, Rosie. (Cusack John)
I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little. (Cusack John)
“Shawn was a great musician but a poor businessman,” (Cusack John)
“I guess I'm just not in it for the celebrity of it. I'm in it because I love it.” (Cusack John)
I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star. Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work. (Cusack John)
I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star. (Cusack John)
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good. (Cusack John)
Eminem is very cool. This is a very intense ride and we had to go to some raw places, some very hard places with this script. It was hard. It was tough. (Cusack John)
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business. (Cusack John)
“Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.” (Cusack John)
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