The best Quotes by Joan Cusack

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

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.

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.

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet! My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!

Come on. Let’s see how much we’re going for on eBay.

Buzz Lightyear: "Excuse me, I think the word you're searching for is 'Space Ranger'."
Woody: "The word I'm searching for I can't say, because there's preschool toys present."

We’re not preschool toys, Slinky. We can read.

Your'e right, Prospector. I can't stop Andy from growing up... but I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Rex: "No, no, no, no."
Buzz Lightyear: "Oh, you almost had him."
Rex: "I'm never gonna defeat Zurg!"
Buzz Lightyear: "Sure, you will, Rex. In fact, you're a better Buzz than I am."
Rex: "But look at my little arms! I can't press the 'fire' button and 'jump' at the same time!"

Woody once risked his life to save mine, and I couldn't call myself his friend if I wasn't willing to do the same.

We have a friend in need, and we will not rest until he's safe in Andy's room.

I just want you to know that even though you tried to terminate me, revenge is not an idea we promote on my planet.

I service society by rocking, okay? I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music.

Ned Schneebly: "Why don't you sell one of your guitars or something?"
Dewey Finn: "What?! Would you tell Picasso to sell his guitars?"

I'm a teacher. All I need are minds for molding.

Rock isn't about getting an A. Sex Pistols never won anything.

Those that can't do, teach, and those that can't teach, teach gym.

Dewey Finn: "If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head."
Rosalie Mullins: "No, we don't use corporal punishment here."
Dewey Finn: "Okay, so just... verbal abuse?"

Dewey Finn: "8:15 to 10, rock history. 10 to 11, rock appreciation in theory. And then band practice till the end of the day."
Frankie: "What about math?"
Dewey Finn: "No, not important."

God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. We are your humble servants. Please give us the power to blow people's minds with our high voltagerock. In your name we pray. Amen.

I love you. It means we take care of each other. It means thick and thin, good times, bad, sickness, health, all that shit.

You can’t drink him away. It won’t work.

I believe the answer to that question, like the answer to most questions, is f*ck you!

Love is not supposed to be cute. Love is supposed to be raw and destructive.

Jenna dances for an audience. You dance like there's no one else in the room. You life's not simple, Fiona, and you can't stop it from showing because you're no fake. You're not lost. You don't need finding. This whole city belongs to the Jennas, I'm sick of them. I swear, Fiona, you're nothing like anyone I've ever met. You make me want to enjoy my life again.

If God didn't want us putting things up our ass, he would have given the rectum a gag reflex.

Every time we open our hearts, every time we open our gates, we take a risk.

Sometimes when people love each other very much, they need time apart, so when they come back together, their love is even stronger.

You did okay, Mickey. You know, you tried. That’s a lot more than most people would do.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

We think too much and feel too little.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."