Henry Rollins Quotes

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

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• When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Music
  • Thought

• I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

  

  Larry King
  • Doing
  • Questions
  • Asking

• I want a place where I can have horses.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • Want
  • Place
  • I Can

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Character
  • Night
  • Day

• You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Women
  • Help
  • Man

• I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Probably

• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Career
  • Walk
  • Park

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Process
  • Choice

• I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Men
  • Age
  • Boys

• I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said. "It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me." "Don't worry," I said. "I do.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Worry

• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Important
  • Know
  • Me

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Audience
  • Talent
  • Luck

• I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Smart
  • Audience
  • Violent