Shirley Manson

Manson, Shirley Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Glamour & the Squalor

  2014, role: actress , character name: Herelf
• Play in Full Screen MSN Exclusives

  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Knife Fight

  2012, role: actress , character name: Nicole
• Play in Full Screen Garbage Live

  2012, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen War Stories

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Conceptualization

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Designing Destruction

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Setting the Tempo

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Absolute Garbage

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Absolute Garbage

  2007, role: actress , character name: Various
• Play in Full Screen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Blondie: One Way or Another

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Brit Awards 2005

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter 'Best British Live Act'
• Play in Full Screen The Work of Director Stéphane Sednaoui

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 5th Annual Women Rock

  2004, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Europe Music Awards 2003

  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Kerrang Awards

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Best Ever Bond

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Bond Cocktail

  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 41st Annual Grammy Awards

  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Garbage

  1996, role: actress , character name: Various
• Play in Full Screen Garbage

  1996, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Garbage

  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Shirley Manson:

"I don't think we feel Garbage will ever be completely over. It's part of our lives, we still all get on well and love each other. We're taking a hiatus, I don't know if we're calling it a day. I don't think I'll ever make music with another band."

"The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was going on in each individual's mind. And we've never really spoken about it. But I do know that Butch felt that he quit."

"I don't really see where I fit into that group, but I'm very flattered. I think, though, all of us women, regardless of how different we are as artists, come from a similar place in terms of how we view our role as a female musician. All of us are pretty feisty. And I think that that's what people identify with. Because there seem to be so few women right now who are interested in having an opinion. Having something to say. Trying to do things a little differently. Refusing to take our clothes off to further our careers."

"I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to tell ME what I choose to do with MY BODY or MY LIFE. How dare ANYONE, even for a MILLISECOND, consider it reasonable to legislate over the insides of another human being. Where will that kind of legislation end? Will it eventually lead to goverment legislation over our organs?"

"That's very kind of you but that's not how they really see it,"

"Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me,"

"I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon!' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small."

"I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my hand,"

"I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities. They don't go away just because they call you a sex symbol."

"She seems very benign and wholesome, ... but underneath lurks an incredible toughness and powerful directness."

"I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies."

"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."

"I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody."

"I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious."

"I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it."

"Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture."

"Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."

"I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun."

"My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket."

"A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour."

Shirley Manson