Shirley Manson quote: "I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect."

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father of...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
SHIRLEY MANSON

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches an...
SHIRLEY MANSON

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that'...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
SHIRLEY MANSON

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
SHIRLEY MANSON

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
SHIRLEY MANSON

It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you...
SHIRLEY MANSON

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed ...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a f...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible g...
SHIRLEY MANSON

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it'...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet so...
SHIRLEY MANSON

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constan...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be in...
SHIRLEY MANSON

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
SHIRLEY MANSON

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
SHIRLEY MANSON

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
SHIRLEY MANSON

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
SHIRLEY MANSON

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with peopl...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d...
SHIRLEY MANSON

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
SHIRLEY MANSON

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and hav...
SHIRLEY MANSON

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such ...
SHIRLEY MANSON

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to ma...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without re...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't eve...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my ...
SHIRLEY MANSON

Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me,
SHIRLEY MANSON

I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to...
SHIRLEY MANSON

The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was go...
SHIRLEY MANSON

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chos...
SHIRLEY MANSON

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call...
SHIRLEY MANSON

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have pe...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
SHIRLEY MANSON

She seems very benign and wholesome, ... but underneath lurks an incredible toughness and powerful d...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and ...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
SHIRLEY MANSON

At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals ...
SHIRLEY MANSON

I don't really see where I fit into that group, but I'm very flattered. I think, though, all of us w...
SHIRLEY MANSON

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to ackn...
MARILYN MANSON

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
MARILYN MANSON

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

Art gives people a reason to be alive.
MARILYN MANSON

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to dist...
MARILYN MANSON

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in...
MARILYN MANSON

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to ...
MARILYN MANSON

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to conve...
MARILYN MANSON

I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.
MARILYN MANSON

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on lo...
MARILYN MANSON

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
MARILYN MANSON

If you lose who you are, what do you have?
MARILYN MANSON

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
MARILYN MANSON

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because w...
MARILYN MANSON

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

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest...
MARILYN MANSON

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanth...
MARILYN MANSON

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about ...
MARILYN MANSON

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...
MARILYN MANSON

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religi...
MARILYN MANSON

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
MARILYN MANSON

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re...
MARILYN MANSON

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world w...
CHARLES MANSON

I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan,...
MARILYN MANSON

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

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.
CHARLES MANSON

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach...
CHARLES MANSON

What nearly everybody in my life
MARILYN MANSON

Look down at me and you see a fool;
CHARLES MANSON

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.
CHARLES MANSON

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal rig...
CHARLES MANSON

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
MARILYN MANSON

You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago...
CHARLES MANSON

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
MARILYN MANSON

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it'...
MARILYN MANSON

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, bu...
MARILYN MANSON

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
MARILYN MANSON

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of c...
MARILYN MANSON

Music is the strongest form of magic.
MARILYN MANSON

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
MARILYN MANSON

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
MARILYN MANSON

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed ...
MARILYN MANSON

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. Tha...
MARILYN MANSON

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, ...
MARILYN MANSON

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
MARILYN MANSON

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m...
MARILYN MANSON

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

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new...
MARILYN MANSON

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what r...
MARILYN MANSON

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.
MARILYN MANSON

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or sh...
MARILYN MANSON

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best tim...
MARILYN MANSON

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't ...
MARILYN MANSON

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the...
MARILYN MANSON

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
CHARLES MANSON

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machi...
MARILYN MANSON

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't...
MARILYN MANSON

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
MARILYN MANSON

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and wh...
MARILYN MANSON

I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my stan...
MARILYN MANSON

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

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep...
MARILYN MANSON

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be...
MARILYN MANSON

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
MARILYN MANSON

I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.
MARILYN MANSON

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they...
MARILYN MANSON

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm...
MARILYN MANSON

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small...
MARILYN MANSON

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
MARILYN MANSON

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than ...
MARILYN MANSON

There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and ba...
MARILYN MANSON

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
MARILYN MANSON

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.
MARILYN MANSON

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the D...
MARILYN MANSON

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th...
MARILYN MANSON

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. ...
CHARLES MANSON

Ego is the man, the male image. Ego is the phallic symbol, the helmet, the gun. The man behind the g...
CHARLES MANSON

My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.
CHARLES MANSON

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal...
CHARLES MANSON

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll...
MARILYN MANSON

The evidence is now compelling and irrefutable,
JOANN MANSON

[According to an official statement,] the complaints are from religious preachers who simply want pu...
MARILYN MANSON

They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find ...
CHARLES MANSON

It wasn't anything spectacular or acrobatic. It was something I'd do a million times a show.
MARILYN MANSON

I think it's not very common to be truly physically fit and obese, though it is theoretically possib...
JOANN MANSON

You eat meat and you kill things that are better than you are, and then you say how bad, and even ki...
CHARLES MANSON

The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
CHARLES MANSON

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

I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson.
CHARLES MANSON

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
MARILYN MANSON

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin T...
MARILYN MANSON

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really ...
MARILYN MANSON

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into fol...
MARILYN MANSON

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more be...
MARILYN MANSON

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

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe i...
MARILYN MANSON

you smell like ass. you all smell like ass. am i complaining?
MARILYN MANSON

We've been looking forward to him coming back. He had a great return, and we hope that he can help c...
BART MANSON

The thing is lately we've moved to a smaller lineup, and that gives us much better spacing for every...
BART MANSON

Everybody says that defense wins championships. It doesn't if you can't score.
BART MANSON

It came down to two things: They killed us on the glass, and we couldn't make a shot.
BART MANSON

They're one of the top teams in the state. They have three kids who can flat-out score. We're going ...
BART MANSON

We don't feel like a seventh seed, because we've been playing well lately. We know we're better than...
BART MANSON

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.
MARILYN MANSON

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibi...
MARILYN MANSON

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
MARILYN MANSON

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

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
MARILYN MANSON

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn...
MARILYN MANSON

I started, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... '
CHARLES MANSON

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
MARILYN MANSON

I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that ...
CHARLES MANSON

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger'...
MARILYN MANSON

Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me a...
CHARLES MANSON

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the wh...
CHARLES MANSON

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doe...
MARILYN MANSON

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally ...
MARILYN MANSON

And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we ...
MARILYN MANSON

The word 'Antichrist' ,to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
MARILYN MANSON

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
CHARLES MANSON

Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me...If ...
CHARLES MANSON

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
MARILYN MANSON

in a case of massive publicity Los Angeles County will necessarily always be the venue of choice sin...
CHARLES MANSON

Well, we’re our own prisons. We each our own wardens & we do our own times. We get stuck in our ow...
CHARLES MANSON

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking th...
MARILYN MANSON

Believe me, if I started murdering people… there'd be none of you left!
CHARLES MANSON

I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the...
CHARLES MANSON

I just think that you should, you know, be a professional drug user. If you're going to use drugs do...
MARILYN MANSON

I'm not against God. I'm against the Misuse of God.
MARILYN MANSON

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

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehi...
MARILYN MANSON

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

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

I'm thankful that I have two middle fingers... I only wish I had more.
MARILYN MANSON

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and filth...
MARILYN MANSON

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.
MARILYN MANSON

What would Marilyn Manson be if no one hated Marilyn Manson?
MARILYN MANSON

Have you ever tried riding a pig, painted black, really high on drugs, wearing a cowboy hat?
MARILYN MANSON

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.
MARILYN MANSON

I pity anyone who has to spend the day with me.
MARILYN MANSON

what happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? that will make me god because a lo...
MARILYN MANSON

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concer...
MARILYN MANSON

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be t...
MARILYN MANSON

I just try to make people think. I don't try to shock them or scare them. I just try and get them to...
MARILYN MANSON

If someone listen's to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.
MARILYN MANSON

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm th...
MARILYN MANSON

That's the key. You make your body a place where germs don't wanna live.
MARILYN MANSON

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
MARILYN MANSON

There was a saying that I saw on a packet of sugar and I think anyone can apply it to their life: 'D...
MARILYN MANSON

There's days when I'd love for everybody to realize that things have gone too far, and that we need ...
MARILYN MANSON

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th...
MARILYN MANSON

"I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in ot...
MARILYN MANSON

There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if...
MARILYN MANSON

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between c...
MARILYN MANSON

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front o...
MARILYN MANSON

So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't s...
CHARLES MANSON

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

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I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

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