Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I love pain. Love pain.

You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

I'm very much a masochist at heart.

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.

I try to avoid bad experiences.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

Most of the time, people say negative things for a reaction, and I can't even bear to give them the satisfaction. So there's something that I gain from feeling like I'm the bigger person, from walking away from a situation.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.

As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

Unfortunately, we're in a profession, and if you've got thin skin, you're not going to last very long. So you take the good with the bad.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.

At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?