Henry Rollins Quotes

I hope that I never have to work in a place that sells large quantities of jeans ever again. Jeans are rough! It used to kill my hands. I know that sounds prissy - I'm not prissy at all. But it did; it killed my hands. It was awful.

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.'

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

The job takes a terrible toll on a family.

A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.