I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
