Henry Rollins Quotes

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

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• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fashion
  • Need
  • Everything

• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Book
  • Man

• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Team

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Money
  • Never
  • Save

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Flag
  • Sail

• In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Childhood
  • Nobody
  • Where

• I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Me
  • Describe
  • Bother

• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Mother
  • Black

• But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Parents
  • Well

• There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Passion

• What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Cowboy

• Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • People
  • Kind
  • Mean

• To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Culture
  • Kitchen
  • Tough

• There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

  

  Giancarlo Esposito
  • Action
  • Price
  • Reaction

• So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

  

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