Quotes About Provocative

Starz is a network that's going for the content that's extremely honest and pushing the envelope and is provocative.

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

My brothers said I was always the craziest, always pushing buttons.

Putin is lovely.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Jose Mourinho is the Floyd Mayweather Jr of football management. You either love him or hate him.

I'm a friendly fascist.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

Non esiste l'inferno. Esiste la Francia

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves.

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it?

La niña, de apenas trece años y algo jorobada, le golpeo con el codo y le miro de soslayo. Ni su juventud ni su defecto corporal habían impedido que se corrompiese. Ni siquiera le sonreía, sino que lanzaba a K miradas provocativas

Si le livre que nous lisons ne nous réveille pas d'un coup de poing sur le crâne, à quoi bon le lire ?

I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry.

I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.

I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.

Oliver Stone should be given a helping hand - indeed, a vigorous shove - into the land of forced retirement. There, in the professional wilderness where he belongs, standing on a splintered soapbox right next to Mel Gibson's, he can preach his anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism into the wind.

I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.