Henry Rollins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
-
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
-
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
-
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-
I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
-
I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
-
During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
-
I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
-
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
-
Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
-
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
-
Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
-
I grew up with Bond.
-
I'd like to win an Oscar.
-
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
-
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
-
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
-
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
-
I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.
-
I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn't study 'Lord of the Flies.'
-
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
-
'The man's become inhuman, I tell you,' said Kemp. 'I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror-so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape-as I am sure I am talking to you. Our only chance is to be ahead. He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.'
-
I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
