Joan Cusack Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.”

“My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.”

“My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.”

“I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.”

“I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.”

“It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.”

“You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.”

“I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.”

“It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.”

“Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.”