Joan Cusack

Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack is an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the romantic comedy-drama Working Girland the romantic comedy In & Outas well as one Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the latter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth11 October 1962
CountryUnited States of America
figure love opportunity work
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.
dad decision funny hard humor influenced irish life man sure taught wit
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.
million time
You don't have to make $20 million every time you make a movie.
breakfast figure goes great hard life son sure takes taking television time work
I'm taking the time to figure it out and making sure I'm with my son in the morning, and I'm getting him breakfast before he goes to school. It just takes a lot of energy, but doing a television show is such a great life for an actor, and that's why I wanted to do it, because it's hard if every time you work you have to go to a different city, when you don't live and work in the same place.
catherine director early fun keener late thirties
Well, we're all actresses. We've got that going. We're all gals in our late thirties and early forties, and Frances McDormand and Catherine Keener have kids, and the director has kids, so we all have that, you know, and then everyone's kind of their own kind of person. It was fun for me to be around other actresses that were interesting, because I don't get that.
mom teacher math
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
meaningful kids hard-work
A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.
passion people psychology
I tend to come from a more psychological - that's sort of my passion. I'm interested in the psychology of politics as well - and obviously I'm interested in what's going on in the world - but my passion is more the psychology of people.
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It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.
the-end-of-the-day lucky world
You're curious about someone, or why they're doing what they're doing. Because everyone who gets to work in this field is so lucky, and it's such a rarified world, I understand that. At the end of the day, I'm interested in demystifying it.
nice tv-shows parent
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
rap thinking america
I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
meaningful fun thinking
I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.
smart good-woman friendly
A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.