Henry Rollins Quotes

I really want that there should be love and respect between me and Ranbir, but at the same time, I want that there should be some kind of distance - that I can see you, but I can't feel you.

I leave my emotions at home.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.

Once the film is released, once my job is over, I can't see the film again.

To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually - a 'fade out' as I like to call it.

The most important thing anyone taught me in this business was not to take anything personally.

I don't take anything personal.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

I said it would be better if we weren’t friends, not that I didn’t want to be.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

I don't ever be trippin off of what ain't mine.

You have to develop a certain healthy distance to allow you to keep a clear head, to be able to analyse the situation, lead your team, and move forward with them, because there are times if I'm not careful... if you get too involved, it will consume you; it will consume you, and you will not be good to your team; the issues you are dealing with.