Joan Cusack Messages

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.