Henry Rollins Quotes

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

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• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Art

• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Man

• If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Lost

• Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Important
  • Think
  • Comedy

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Why

• Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Comedy
  • Passion
  • Going

• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fear

• What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying

• My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Wise

• I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Trying
  • Girl

• Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

  

  David Steinberg
  • Time
  • Important
  • Comedy

• I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Trying
  • Moral
  • Forget

• I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

  

  Kesha
  • Singing
  • Dance

• If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Clubs