Marina Quotes

If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.

We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

Drink to forget; don't forget to drink.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body with incredible flow of the meat everywhere, it was beauty.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

You can’t have peace without a war.

We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

I want blood, guts, and chocolate cake.

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.

I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.