Henry Rollins Quotes
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
Quotes to Explore
-
I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
-
I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
-
We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
-
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
-
I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
-
I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
-
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
-
The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
-
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
-
I'm not a good guitar player.
-
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
-
I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
-
I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
-
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
-
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
-
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
-
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
-
Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.
-
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
-
The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.
-
They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
-
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
-
I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.
-
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
