Henry Rollins Quotes

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

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• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Know
  • Everything

• I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Best

• I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Pride

• I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Never

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Want
  • Push

• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Great
  • Want
  • Making

• I want to be my own person.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • More
  • Performing

• I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Model

• When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Want
  • Food
  • Hungry

• I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Want
  • Me
  • Air

• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Book
  • Want
  • Beach

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

  

  Lakhdar Boumediene

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Small
  • Legacy

• I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

  

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