Top 429 Quotes & Sayings by Marilyn Manson - Page 3

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

I fall in love very easily.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make.

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.