Usually Quotes

It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that!

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.