Usually Quotes

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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.