Quotes by Marilyn Manson

About Marilyn Manson:

Brian Hugh Warner is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, painter, multimedia artist, and former music journalist. He is known for his controversial stage personality and image as the lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson, which he co-founded with Daisy Berkowitz and of which he remains the only constant member. His stage name was formed by juxtaposing the names of two American cultural icons, namely actress Marilyn Monroe and murderer Charles Manson.
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The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

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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.

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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.

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I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start...

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I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not real...

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I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

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

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The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

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

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If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.

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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...

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I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

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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.

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My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

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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...

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

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When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

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I fall in love very easily.

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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.

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Music is the strongest form of magic.

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What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarilyn Manson
  • DescriptionAmerican rock musician and actor
  • AliasesBrian Hugh Warner
  • BornJanuary 5, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Singer; Film Director; Singer-songwriter; Musician; Actor; Autobiographer; Painter; Composer