Henry Rollins Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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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.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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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.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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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.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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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.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
