Quotes About Provocation

It is better to know it. Better to know who you are, and what lies in you, what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation.

Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That solves nothing I know, and I spent a lot of time understanding my own violence, which is not of the pussycat kind. There are people who could never commit murder; I am not one of those people. It's better to know it, better to know who you are, and what lies in you, and what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation.

My daddy is nothing like your daddy! I shouted. When my daddy passes out, he never pisses himself!

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

Hire disrespectful people.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

If I have a centre back giving me stick, I want to score and say, 'shut your mouth!' It makes me strive, man.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

I sometimes lose my calm for a moment, but only when I notice that an opponent is deliberately trying to injure me.

I always fight better when my opponent's angry.

We have to keep our strong mentality every time, with a good emotional balance to support everything, whether an opponent provokes you or not, because the opponent is doing his job as well.

Any opposing gym we go into, I want them to hate me. At the end of the game, I want to be beating their team so bad that they should hate me.

You always have to be conscious of how your words can provide motivation to the opposition.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

What better way to attract an audience than to get everyone to shout 'Outrage!' at the size of your advance?

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.