Usually Quotes

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

Usually, jet lag is not this big of an issue for me. I'm not sure why I'm so disoriented this time. It could be due to the amount of chocolate and french fries I've eaten in the last two and a half weeks.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.