Shock Value Quotes

• I've been on shows that go for shock value

  Daphne Zuniga

  Shock, Shows, Values

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• When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Humanity, Shock

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• It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

  Beth Ditto

  Art, Normal, Pieces

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• Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

  Camille Paglia

  Dogma, Artwork, Shock

  Camille Paglia (2012). “Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars”, p.12, Vintage

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• I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just shock value. It's not even funny." I disagree. There's different ways to be funny and to be a comedian.

  David Cross

  Issues, People, Comedian

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive.

  Jesse Michaels

  Hate, Heart, Example

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• Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

  Timo Tjahjanto

  Purpose, Film, Shock

  Source: collider.com

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• We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're relying on the story to tell itself and the characters tell it and not (relying on) shock value. It's a suspenseful drama...The best way I can describe it is Pelican Brief meets Time to Kill.

  Drew Waters

  Drama, Character, Blood

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

  George Carlin

  New York, Trying, Use

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

  Haylie Duff

  Successful, Needs, Shock

  "Hilary and Haylie Duff Are Material Girls". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. August 17, 2006.

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• I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

  Rashida Jones

  Tolerance, Gauges, Use

  "Rashida Jones ‘I Love You, Man’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

  George Carlin

  People, Essentials, Phrases

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

  Amy Schumer

  Dark, Say Anything, Shock

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dad, Laughing, Would Be

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• Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

  George Carlin

  People, Quality, Different

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• I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

  Greer Garson

  Character, Feel Better, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Trying, Answers, Way

  "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.

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• Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

  John L'Heureux

  Real, Discovery, Expression

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• That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.

  Crazy Legs

  Moving, Next Level, Flavor

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• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Lance Loud

  Lust, Reason, Preference

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• In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

  Joshua Leonard

  Character, Shining, Connections

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• When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Long, Naked

  Source: collider.com

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• An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Long, Lasts

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• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  Talib Kweli

  Kids, Should, Shock

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