Usually Quotes

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.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

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.

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.