Mike Oldfield Quotes

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Everybody just wants to steal each other's energy.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

That was your bad, how could you pass up on em? He just take them records and he gas up on em.

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Just keep on using me, until you use me up.

I know you want it, boy. I see you tryin. Just keep on pushin, I'm a let you slide in.

I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.