Robert Trujillo Quotes

I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.

Robert Trujillo Metallica

• Song
• Support
• Role

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Black
  • Funny

• It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • True
  • Numbers
  • Comfortable

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Age
  • Me
  • King

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• I want to make this world perfect.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Want
  • Perfect

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Future
  • Place
  • Expectations

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• I only understand realism.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Understand
  • Only
  • Realism

• Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Today
  • Story
  • Information

• People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Fun
  • Act

• You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • See
  • Scary

• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • More
  • Writer

• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Movie
  • Happy
  • Nice

• That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have obligations. Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Tears
  • Online

• I've been through hell and back. I have, to be honest, and still I'm able to do what I do and nothing can stop me. No one can stop me, no matter what. I stop when I'm ready to stop. You know, and I'm just saying, you know, I will continue to move forward no matter what.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Honest
  • Hell
  • Back

• If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • Way
  • Body

• If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

  

  Jay Leno
  • God

• I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Song
  • Support
  • Role