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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
-
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
-
I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this
-
I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
-
I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
-
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
