Quotes About Provocative

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

I'm a controversial guy.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

I think I was born for controversies.

Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

I decided to make one of the most controversial songs that I could. I want to get under people's skin.

I love pop, but with an edge so that's what I'd say my music is. And quite controversial.

I do like making things a bit controversial - I think that's what sells and what catches people's ear.

My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

All critics should be assassinated.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.