Usually Quotes

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.