Joan Cusack Quotes

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

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• I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I’m lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

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• I play- it’s kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what’s their friendship like, and what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

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• I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There’s good things about it, and there’s obviously bad things about it.

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• I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

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• I love Chicago. It’s such a great town, and it’s got great culture and great history, and it’s not as extreme as LA or New York, and it’s just- it’s hard for me for work, because I don’t live and work in the same place and that’s tough. But I’m- I love it.

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• I can’t imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn’t have a lot of money. That’s a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything – I mean, that’s huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

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• Every week it’s another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it’s like theater, too, and the audience, and it’s so short. It’s only 20 minutes. It’s like a haiku or something.

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• Can they do both? That’s a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it’s everything, you know, it’s social life, it’s academics, it’s sports.

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• Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down – they were still there, although no one was in them.

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• Because I don’t think it’s very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that’s a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

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Joan Cusack (31)

Birth:	11th October, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Joan Cusack was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an American actress. She starred on the Showtime hit drama/comedy Shameless as Sheila Gallagher, a role for which she has received five consecutive Emmy Award nominations, winning for the first time in 2015. She is the sister of actress Ann and actor John Cusack. She studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her role in several films include: My Bodyguard, Sixteen Candles, The Allnighter, Working Girl (Nominated- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), My Blue Heaven, Nine Months, In & Out (Nominated-  Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress), Arlington Road, High Fidelity, Looney Tunes, Ice Princess, My Sister's Keeper, Welcome to Me, Freaks of Nature, Snatched, and Unicorn Store. Her role in television include: Saturday Night Live, What About Joan?, and Peep and the Big Wide World (TV series, only voice, Nominated- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program). She is married to attorney Richard Burke, President and CEO of Envoy Global, Inc. They have two sons: Dylan John and Miles.

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