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It's Easy For Me To Play Bad Guys Because It's A Very Linear Acting. Bad Guys Aren't Empathetic. Being A Bad Guy Is Great Because You're Not Friendly And You Don't Have To Do Much With Your Face.

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It's Easy For Me

Henry Rollins

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It's Easy For Me To Play Bad Guys Because It's A Very Linear Acting. Bad Guys Aren't Empathetic. Being A Bad Guy Is Great Because You're Not Friendly And You Don't Have To Do Much With Your Face.

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Those Who Seek To Profit By Division Don't Stand A Chance.

If There Was A God, He Wouldn't Let A Guy Walk Right Up And Shoot You In The Face Now Would He? That's Right, Now You Get The Picture. Truth Burns Doesn't It?

We Should Treat Each Other Better. Why In The Hell Would You Still Have Racism? This Ancient, Moronic Hatred? Why Does Our Foreign Policy Have To Always Involve So Much Death And So Much Death Of Innocent People As A Matter Of Course, To The Point To Where No One Bothers To Say Anything. I Guess A Lot Of People Don't Want To Move Forward. It's Frustrating At Times.

We're Just Very Belligerent, And I'm Not Trying To Put Americans Down, By And Large I Think We're Nice People, But We Operate With The Information We're Given And We Are Limited By The Ignorance That Is Kind Of Injected Into The Media And Into The Tv Shows.

I Love Being A Storyteller. I Love Telling Stories.

Telling Stories

I'm Not Trying To Amass People In The Streets. I Just Want Them To Be More Aware. So Many Americans, For One Reason Or Another, They Watch The News And It Doesn't Really Give Them The Idea Of The World. Or They Don't Read Or Travel. They Have No Idea That America Is Part Of The World And Not The World Itself. And So Anything From The Travel Stories I Tell, That's What I'm Trying To Get Across.

I Guess I Am Famous In A Way. I Would Rather Consider It Recognizable - I Think That Is More Logical. I Don't Feel Famous.

When I Die, The World Dies With Me. I'd Really Like To Leave It Better Than How I Found It And I'm Doing What I Can To Effect That.

I Was A Very Repressed Young Person. I Wasn't Good At School. I Didn't Fit In.

I Live My Life Through The Prism Of Capitalism And Physiological Limits And Eventualities. In All Of That, There Is No Spirituality Required. No God And Karma Is Needed For The Numbers. I Live My Life By The Numbers. Not Only Am I An American, I Am An Americanist.

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