David Lee Roth Quotes
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
Quotes to Explore
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
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I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.
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I'm an independent.
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My education was very tough.
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People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
