Marilyn Manson Quotes

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

Finish , Good , Picture

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Standing , Themselves

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.

Father , Memories , Mother

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.'

Girl , Meet , Simple

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.

Democracy , Internet

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Religion , Television

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.

Control , Escape , True

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Watching

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.

Add , Artist , Hand

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.

Hunger , Life , Wish

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Books , Feels , Music

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept – if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.

Dead , Walking , Whatever

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

Jesus , Upset , Violence

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Form , Magic , Strongest

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Faith , Far , Putting

Marriage changes everything.

Changes

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.

Creative , Struggle , Women

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.

Art , Music , Tie

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

Behavior , Difference , Words

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.

Earth , Grow , Sun