John Cusack Quotes

I think all actors are professional liars.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

I can't act. I can't lie.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.