I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life and you think to yourself, ‘How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we’re in?’
In ‘Hell Ride,’ I play a biker – it’s about the bikers. It’s with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We’re bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I’ve got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.
My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That’s pretty much the central theme running through my work. It’s about people’s awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
In ’98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn’t really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
You’re just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell’s Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they’d lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Why can’t everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren’t likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn’t quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It’s kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn’t appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn’t appreciated. It’s like, ‘What the hell do you do?’ What you do is you don’t allow anyone to dictate who you are.
When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala – or ‘Trouble Woman.’ It means ‘I give you hell.’ But I don’t care what names they call me. I’m a fighter; I’m very focused on what I’m doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.
When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that’s hotter than hell.
My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.
I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
Between ‘Avengers,’ ‘JLA/Avengers,’ and ‘Trinity,’ I’ve gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
It’s like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you’re all excited, ‘My God, how did I ever get here?’ Then, about six months later, you say, ‘How the hell did the rest of them get here?’
People forget at the time that ‘The Simpsons’ started out, it was controversial – the fact that they said ‘hell’ and ‘damn’ in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.
It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you’ve played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you’ve done the ‘Wild Thing’ video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you’re not gonna top that.
It’s about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
The government was built on compromising. And it’s frustrating as hell.
After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
I’m a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it’s tracts of homes.
I don’t know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain’t pinned down they’re hell.
He’s the president of the United States. He’s got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he’s got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
‘Hell Or High Water’ was written after the end of a relationship, and I do feel like every Passenger album has the obligatory break-up song.
To hell with love of country – I compete for myself.
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn’t know what I was doing half the time.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
My Blackness, my queerness, my gayness, my inability to shut the hell up – these are all things that have really worked for me.
If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.
There aren’t always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
I hate being alone. That’s why I like being with my friends: we’ve got energy; we’re social as hell.
I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.
We want consumers to say, ‘That’s a hell of a product’ instead of, ‘That’s a hell of an ad.’
I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.
‘The Art Student’s War’ is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters ‘have been to Hell and back.’
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
‘Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven’s the greatest pain in hell.
I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on the outside!
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses ’em – sometimes just for the hell of it.
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise – well, hell, to even things up next time around, I’m going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
People realize this man knows what the hell’s going on and nobody else does.
Old age is a woman’s hell.
Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
I don’t believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
