Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 30

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

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  Past, Long, Directors

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• I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.

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  Depressing, Frustration, Enough Time

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• Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Play, Musician, Should

  "Henry Rollins says he won't be playing any "old music" - or maybe any music at all - any time soon" by Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

  Henry Rollins

  Voice, Guitar, Black

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• So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

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  Way, Actors, Found

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• I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

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  Memories, Desperation, Glorious

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• Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

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  Rocks, Ironic, Mind

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• Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

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  Giving, Giving It All, Performances

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• The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.

  Henry Rollins

  Stress, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

  Henry Rollins

  Government, Media, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

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  Government, Democracy, Calling

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

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  People, Ego, Acting

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• The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Wall, Army

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

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  America, Might, Way

  Source: emptylighthouse.com

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• Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

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  Regret, Pride, Luxury

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

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  Blow, Talking, Ideas

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

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  Teacher, Kings, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to.

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  Enemy, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

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  Phones, Dancing, Asking

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• Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.

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  Grateful, Humble, People

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.

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  Wish, Ifs

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.

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  Sleep, Work Out, Determined

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs.

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  Dog, People, Vietnam

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

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  Writing, Eight, People

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