Patrice O'Neal Quotes

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

I've always been very bold - some would say brash. I've always said very edgy, controversial statements.

I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

I love Roger Stone. He's very provocative, and I like that about him. He's not afraid to take risk, and he's not afraid to say things.

Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.

I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry.

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.

I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'

Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.

People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I'm actually quite adventurous.

I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.

Billy Magnussen, he's a wild one.

I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.

I was always the one pushing the envelope, stirring things up, sometimes getting in trouble. I was always the first one to get a spanking as a kid.

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.