Marilyn Manson Quotes

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

I like the freedom America has. In Japan people tend to think too much about others' opinions and how to be like everybody else but to Americans it seems more important to be who you are and find your own way.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

People aren't allowed to be themselves in snooker.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.