Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Manson

I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.

Marilyn Manson

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

Marilyn Manson

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

Marilyn Manson

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

Marilyn Manson

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Marilyn Manson

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.

Marilyn Manson

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

Marilyn Manson

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.

Marilyn Manson

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.

Magda Apanowicz

People always ask me if Im nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesnt seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

Mae Jemison

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Mae Whitman

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are.

Mads Mikkelsen

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works.

Mads Mikkelsen

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

Michael Hastings

The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.

Michael Haneke

People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

Michael Haneke

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Michael Haneke

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

Michael Haneke

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

Michael Haneke

Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to do. When you take the risk of expressing yourself in public, you have to open yourself to that possibility.

Michael C. Hall

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Michael Cera

When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.

Michael Buble

Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.

Michael Buble

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

Michael Buble

I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube.

Michael Buble

I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe. Y

Michael Caine

You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.

Michael Caine

What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

People dont pay attention until they have to

Merrill Markoe

The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

Merle Shain

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Merle Shain

There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad.

Merle Shain

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.