Henry Rollins Quotes

Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.

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• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Good
  • Power
  • Game

• The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• I rode horses since I was a kid.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Kid
  • Horses
  • Since

• Actors don't have real value.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real
  • Value
  • Real Value

• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Patience

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • People
  • Violence
  • Fight

• I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Want
  • You
  • Style

• I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Live
  • School
  • High

• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Career
  • College
  • Model

• These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Why
  • Myself

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Men
  • Women
  • Enjoy

• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Teacher

• The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Women
  • Education

• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

  

  Mary McCormack
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• To me, the meaning of life is to be happy, it's to achieve happiness right now. It's to make sure your happy in the future and that generally when you look back on your life you're like; yes, that was satisfactory. And if some people on youtube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is; Do whatever you have to do to be happy.

  

  Dan Howell
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Acting
  • Ego