Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci
Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.
‐‐ Ty Segall
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
‐‐ Idina Menzel
Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris
Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!
‐‐ Alan Vega
Usually I'm too tired to apologize.
‐‐ Lewis Black
Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.
‐‐ Kathleen Robertson
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold
Usually I perform with dancers.
‐‐ Grimes
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
‐‐ John Cusack
Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.
‐‐ Sayed Badreya
Usually I say I have no imagination.
‐‐ Jose Padilha
Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
‐‐ Anthony Marra
Usually I spend my holidays with my family.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
‐‐ J. Cole
Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.
‐‐ Neal Boortz
Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee
Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
‐‐ Kenneth Noland
Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
‐‐ Gail Porter
Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
‐‐ Demetri Martin
Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food.
‐‐ Debi Mazar
Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres
Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.
‐‐ Pete Hamill
Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.
‐‐ John Burnside
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
‐‐ Mickey Kaus
Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.
‐‐ Britt Daniel
Usually, if I can't fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of 'The Real Housewives.' I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump
Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.
‐‐ Travis Barker
Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
‐‐ Ben Feldman
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
‐‐ Donald Glover
Usually, if I want to just listen to something or sing along to something, I'll put on some Gavin DeGraw or some Billy Joel. Occasionally, if I am feeling vocally in really great shape, I will sing Jean Valjean's soliloquy from 'Les Miz' or something.
‐‐ Josh Young
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.
‐‐ Stanley Schmidt
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
‐‐ Martin Fleischmann
Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
‐‐ Ted Danson
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke
Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!
‐‐ Margaret Cho
Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.
‐‐ Jason Statham
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'
‐‐ Alex Borstein
Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
‐‐ Charlie Sheen
Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'
‐‐ Ian Hecox
Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.
‐‐ Shirin Ebadi
Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
‐‐ Eddie Albert
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini
Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.
‐‐ David James Elliott
Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.
‐‐ Arnaud Desplechin
Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.
‐‐ Timothy Olyphant
Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.
‐‐ Amy Ryan