Top 80 Beforehand Quotes

What I’m after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn’t be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music.

‘Pulp Fiction’ blew my mind; beforehand, I’d watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that’s it. There is in that film, too, but it’s out of sequence.

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.

We have amazing stunt performers and in Miguel Sapochnik, a director who’s so good at spending hours and hours and hours on every shot beforehand, so that he knows exactly what he wants when he gets to the battlefield on the day. We only shoot ten-hour days, so you have to pack a lot into those ten hours.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

I spend a lot of my time packing. It’s a routine, and I know what I need, but I still like to make a list beforehand and usually pack in the afternoon, as I prefer to rest the evening before travelling.

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

I don’t really think of records beforehand. I don’t want them to freak me out.

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that’s the worst thing.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.

You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.

I mean the joy of doing the ‘Psych’ thing I have to say, is that, you know, I’d met them beforehand, James Roday and Timothy Omundson specifically. I met Dule Hill when I got up there. But they’re just, you know, a nice bunch of people.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand – this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama – and what’s the point of independent film if you don’t get to experiment?

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

I always carry a little jar of nuts around with me. I roast them beforehand with tamari and thyme to give them a deliciously rich flavour.

I mean, it wasnt like I had said to myself beforehand, ‘OK, I’m gonna go out there and sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in the weirdest way possible and cause a commotion.’ I just sang it the way I felt it I sang it the only way I could.

In ‘The Matrix,’ you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It’s an amazing fight. But I know that they’ve rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.

Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance on the set.

Listening to the director always interact with me in Telugu, I got a hang of the language on the sets of ‘Uppena’. Given that I had no acting training beforehand, it took time for me to deliver long lines.

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can’t write it beforehand, because I don’t know what the book’s about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Generally for red carpet, I love to relax first. I love to work out. I love to eat well, drink tons of water beforehand, so on the night of the red carpet I feel good and ready to go. I also love to get a good body scrub.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn’t a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

I think I’ve always been fine on stage – though I get nervous beforehand. But once I’m on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I’ll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote ‘Wuthering Heights,’ I told my boyfriend beforehand ‘I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.’ Actually once I was there, it was fine.

For me, you have to do as much work as you can beforehand and, once you get on stage or set, throw it out the window because you need to be collaborative. You shouldn’t have too many ideas about where it goes before you get into the room with the director and other actors.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody – I wanted everybody to like me.

With ‘Toy Story,’ which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. ‘Jumanji’ is shot much like any other action film.

Of course Messi could handle a cold Tuesday night in Stoke. He’d be drinking tea and relaxing beforehand. Me? I’d probably be the same.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it’s hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations… In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don’t want to waste time on drama beforehand.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

I had a really great performance with Steven Tyler in the movie ‘Be Cool.’ I performed ‘Cryin’,’ so we recorded the song beforehand. But I didn’t get to meet him until I hit the stage with him, and we had a live performance with 30,000 people in the audience, and that was for the movie.

It’s always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

In the movies, you typically do get to see the script beforehand. TV is different because there are a lot of scripts in the future that you haven’t seen. You commit to a show, and you have to believe in the showrunner and their team and the stories they’re going to tell.

I’ve been through the routine so many times that I genuinely don’t even think about a big fight very much beforehand.

If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I’ll get to the oval three hours beforehand and warm up for about 45 minutes off the ice. Then I’ll stretch and get on the ice for 20 minutes. I’ll cool down, then relax, close my eyes and think about what I need to do.