Marina Quotes

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say "Oh my god!" and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.

Americans don't like European movies.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

We always think of our own profit, but not in connection to others.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

Wherever you go, there’s your teacher.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

Not many people ask me out.

I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

Television is completely another medium.

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.

I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists.

I want to dominate the man's world.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

I'm a very, very disciplined person.