I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.
— Marilyn Manson
Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
Man's greatest fear is chaos.
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.
All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.
Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.
I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.
I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.
I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.
For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
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.
I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.
I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
I refuse to say things behind people's backs.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors.
I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.
The hero is never the star of the story.
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.
If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.
I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.
I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?
If you lose who you are, what do you have?
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'
I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.
It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.
Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.
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.
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.
I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.
On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
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.
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.'
I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
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.
