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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. -- Laurence Olivier
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. -- Billy Corgan
Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses. -- Jack Nicklaus
Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway. -- Sloane Crosley
I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more. -- Josh Hartnett
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. -- Emma Thompson
I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable. -- Josh Radnor
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic. -- Tim Ferriss
I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. -- Anthony Bourdain
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. -- Camille Paglia
The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score. -- Simon Doonan
I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions. -- Jayne Mansfield
Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure. -- Edmund White
I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist? -- Francesca Woodman
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing. -- Abby Wambach
Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood... -- J. G. Ballard
I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified. I want to be a clone. I want to be masochistic. I want to be sadistic. I want a Suburban Home. I don't want no hipppie pad; I want a house just like Mom and Dad. -- Milo Aukerman
I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations! -- Helena Bonham Carter
Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good. -- James Berardinelli
In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject. -- Edward Hirsch
I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her. -- Cary Grant
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For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room. -- K Callan
It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists. -- John J. McCloy
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge. -- Michael Haneke
Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment. -- Jennifer Birkett
I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser. -- Susan Straight
All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I'm always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish. -- Jared Leto
I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA. -- Debra Winger
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb"" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion. -- Stephenie Meyer

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