"Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it."

“Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.”

“God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.”

“When you retire, you start to try different things and you choose the one you enjoy the most. As a player, it's difficult to know if you'll be a good manager or not because you might think you can't deal with the dressing room or won't enjoy the game from the sidelines. There's also punditry and careers on TV, so football gives you many different options.”

Source : Source: uk.complex.com

“If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.”

“Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.”

“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”

“The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.”

“I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.”

Source : "An Interview with Marina Abramović: Art, Science and the Marina Abramović Institute". Interview with Stephanie Spiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.