Marianne Quotes

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

Revision is its own reward.

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.

The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!