Henry Rollins Quotes

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

I never made 'Who's Who,' but I'm featured in 'What's That?'

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.