Marilyn Manson Quotes

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.”
― Marilyn Manson Brian Hugh Warner

“I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”
― Marilyn Manson

“I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“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.”
― Marilyn Manson

“The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I never really hated one true god
But the god of all the people I hated”
― Marilyn Manson

“There’s no time to discriminate, hate every motherfucker that’s in your way.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar”
― Marilyn Manson

“But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention, you can say something they might remember”
― Marilyn Manson

“My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“La bestia de la cual vivían atemorizados era en realidad ellos mismos: Era el hombre, no algún demonio mitológico, quien a final iba a destruir al hombre. Y esta bestia había sido creada de su miedo.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James Cameron. In it, Manson croons to Wood, who – with bobbed hair, gloves and a demure frock – blankly masturbates in an audience of writhing lesbians, Manson’s image reflected in her heart-shaped glasses. I wanted to like the song, but found Manson’s threadbare voice and overdubbed music annoying, and the chorus - 'Don’t break my heart/and I won’t break your heart-shaped glasses' – suggested a pugilistic retribution ('Dump me, and I’ll punch your lights out!') more in keeping with Norman Mailer than Nabokov.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth

“I didn't know until a year later that Marilyn Manson had canceled concert dates in our area out of respect, or that the NRA did not cancel their annual meeting, held at a hotel fifteen miles away from the school, just ten days after the shootings.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“When I'd see how these producers reacted when they saw [Marilyn] Manson, I'd think to myself, You're in the entertainment business, what part of entertainment do you not get?”
― Rose McGowan, Brave