Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
-
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
-
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
-
I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
-
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
-
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
-
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
-
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
-
Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
-
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
-
Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
-
I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
-
I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
-
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
-
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
-
You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
-
It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
-
Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.
-
Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
-
People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.
-
The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.
-
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
-
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
