Marina Abramovic Quotes

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. There's a whole other side of me that people don't see.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.

You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

Go head Taggert. Take your best shot.

I feel like people have more in common than the news reports.

I hate the word surrogate, because what does that mean? Like when people talk about I'm my father's confident, at one point, they were actually saying major newspapers were publicly were writing that I was Vice Presidential candidate. I'm saying no. I'm a daughter.

But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.

My answer is bring them on.

How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

You want ME in the ring? Now I know you've been drinking

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title.

We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad.