Used To Be Quotes
100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless. Like I used to be.
As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.
There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.
As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable
There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.
The fashion editor as it used to be has changed. Now you have to wear many hats, and whoever tells you differently is wrong. Now you're on TV, whether you want it or not.
Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.
I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.
The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out of bed.
People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.
It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.
There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?
I used to be able to be in England and just be fine. No one had any idea who I was.I get a lot more abuse in England.
Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.
The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.
It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
I used to be scared of loosing you and it happened just as I had thought. I wonder if you ever feel hurt about having lost the love we had. Do you feel the pain that I feel?
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.
They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.
Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
Maybe I won't have as much energy. And maybe the highs in my voice won't be what they used to be. But exercise is helping me pace myself.
I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.
I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I called someone. They went "Aaaaahhhh..."
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.
I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.