Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Know
  • Capable

• Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Priority
  • Possible
  • Spend

• In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Girl
  • Progress

• I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Children
  • Family
  • Think

• This is a strange game.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Game
  • Strange

• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
  • Constant

• The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Hair
  • Incredible

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Hard

• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Best

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Good
  • Night

• Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Best
  • Red
  • Circle

• I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Losing

• Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Ever

• I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Think
  • Rock N Roll