Usually Quotes

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of "The Lord of the Rings". From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!