Used Quotes

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

The last time I used? What do you mean? I used my toaster this morning.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when you see the stunts in the movie, you realize it could've been a lady in a poncho.

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

I'm training myself to go back to the way I used to record before electronic programs.

David Hasselhoff was hospitalized after falling off the wagon again. He probably got used to drinking too much, because for years he never had to worry about driving anywhere - his car drove itself.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, 'Wow, it doesn't get any better than this!'

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

What kind of power was it if it would never be used?

Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the election. That was easy to predict.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.

Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!

It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.

I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'

Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even a small number of films as a professional composer gets used to that idea pretty quickly.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.