Marina Abramovic Quotes
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
Quotes to Explore
-
When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
-
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
-
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
-
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
-
I want to do whatever I can to survive.
-
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
-
I take my work seriously.
-
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
-
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
-
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
-
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
-
The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
-
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
-
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
-
The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
-
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
-
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
-
I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
-
I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
-
When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
-
If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'
-
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
-
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
-
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
