Gary Rossington Quotes
I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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Women have no government.
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My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly in my head. That it was just…a fear.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.
