Used Quotes

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

I used to love writing in my journal.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

I used to vote Democrat.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.'

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet.

Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I used to be a great blues singer.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

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.

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

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.