Quote

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Henry Rollins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
Actor
Blogger
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Musician
Peace Activist
Poet
Radio Personality
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Washington
District of Columbia
Henry Garfield
Documentaries
Travel
Books
Book

More quotes by Henry Rollins

Image
There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.
Henry Rollins
Image
I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
Henry Rollins
Image
My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
Henry Rollins
Image
While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
Henry Rollins
Image
I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she
Henry Rollins
Image
I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
Henry Rollins
Image
I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.
Henry Rollins
Image
You can still function as a living ruin.
Henry Rollins
Image
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
Image
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.
Henry Rollins
Image
The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
Henry Rollins
Image
I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
Henry Rollins
Image
Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
Henry Rollins
Image
I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
Henry Rollins
Image
We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
Henry Rollins
Image
After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
Henry Rollins
Image
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.
Henry Rollins
Image
For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.
Henry Rollins
Image
Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred.
Henry Rollins
Image
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
Henry Rollins