G.G. Collins Quotes

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.

If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?

Even if I'm not so into the specific celebrities who are sharing images of themselves looking "bad," I think it's an amazing contribution to the conversations about beauty that we have online.

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.

Genesis fans are a religious group!

Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits

You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

I don't really listen to music.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

I've been a long-distance father.

There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.

Everyones a hypercrit and if you don't agree you're a liar as well

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

I suppose Phil Collins offers something for everybody, and in hipdom that's not cool. But in the real world, there's no shame in that at all.

I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

I'd love to work with Disney again.

I prefer black music in general.

You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

We can not understand the visible problem until we go to the invisible one.

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.