Gene Simmons Quotes (26 Quotes)

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

If you go back and check all the reviews for all the icons of today -- Elvis, the Beatles and so on -- they were dismissed as flashes in the pans,

We recognized right off the bat that he was a good athlete. From that point on we were looking at how he could best fit into the system.

He's just a good competitor, he has a good attitude about things. He's even a better competitor than I thought he was.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

Watch us burn rubber, baby.

I thought he competed in every event, he ran a real good quarter mile (56 seconds). He placed in most everything but the 200 meters, he was pretty worn out by then.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

So you had people coming in with scissors, you know, 'my mom's a hair stylist,' or a toothbrush, 'my dad's a dentist,' and my son came in with a poster of me spewing blood and spitting fire,

How can you not be attracted to this sport It's a hair-trigger sport where one sneeze at 230 mph gets you in trouble.

And in music, it's the great aphrodisiac that says that even though I'm short, fat, ugly, bald, and... and I'm hung like a second-grader, but if I'm in a rock band, I've got a better than average chance of bedding you down than if I was a dentist.

We're starting a cable network and a boxing venture, getting involved in Indy car racing, Warner Brothers is starting work on the 'KISS Babies' cartoon show, and the KISS Broadway musical is commencing production.

The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.