Top 429 Quotes & Sayings by Marilyn Manson
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Last updated on September 10, 2024.
I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
Watching movies is my one distraction.
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically.
I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'
I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
If you lose who you are, what do you have?
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.
Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?
Man's greatest fear is chaos.
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.
What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'
Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
People only hate what they see in themselves.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.
Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.
I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.
Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.
Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
Music is the strongest form of magic.
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
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