Marina Abramovic Quotes

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

I was highly influenced by violence.

I was assaulted twice by Aisleyne Horgan Wallace and Janice Dickinson.

It's unusual for me to be in front of an audience without somebody trying to knock my teeth out.

The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!' yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.

The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

Bullies are just frightened people.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you.

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

It's never fun to read death threats.