Marilyn Manson Quotes

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

I'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

Professionally, I'm a perfectionist, and to allow people to see that maybe I wasn't always perfect or put together - that my actual personal life was very messy at times... it was scary to let people know that.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.