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.
Quotes to Explore
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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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.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
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.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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Actors don't have real value.
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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.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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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.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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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.
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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.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
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Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
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Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.
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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.
