Angelo Marcos > Quotes

“Comedy is just anger with a dash of humour thrown in to cover the rage”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“The bigger question here is about whether you will do what you need to do if it comes down to it. You seem to think aggression belongs to people like me, not realising the same anger runs through your veins. It burns sometimes, doesn't it?”
― Angelo Marcos, Defence Mechanism

“Nick, the best thing with this – with everything – is to accept it. Don’t fight against it, don’t deny it. Sometimes, you've got to just take the hit. Let me tell you something everybody seems to forget. Sometimes the good guys win. Bad things happen to good people, yeah, but bad things also happen to bad people. And good things happen to good people too. Don't let life beat that truth out of you.”
― Angelo Marcos, Defence Mechanism

“So what came first, do you reckon, the horrible thoughts forcing you to carry out rituals like a junkie, or the need to make people laugh? Or maybe they’re two sides of the same coin. The vivid imagination causing thoughts which make you want to cry is the same imagination that can find humour in situations other people would call ‘mundane’…”
“It’s occurred to me, yes.”
“Oh, it’s more than occurred to you, Nicky boy. You’re an intelligent man who has an affliction which affects your mind, so you’ve definitely thought about it. A lot, I bet. I’d like to tell you something Nicky, but I want to make sure I’ve got your full attention. Do I?”
“Yes,” I replied in spite of myself.
He leaned even closer, as if we were either co-conspirators in some scheme or lovers about to kiss.
“We’re all victims. All of us. Victims of our own minds...”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“You’re very eloquent, Nick,” Harold suddenly said to me, leaning across from the other side of the circle. “You certainly have a way with words. What is it that you do for a living?”

“I’m a stand-up comedian,” I said, wiping the tears from my face. “I make people laugh.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“This isn’t about killing people for fun. This is about justice. Justice for all the people whose lives end up broken and wasted, because the thing they’ve been looking for all their life doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist! Even when they get it it’s not real! Doesn’t anyone see?”
― Angelo Marcos, The Artist

“You are Nicholas Ivanek-Williams. But I’m guessing you don't use the whole name when on stage, yeah?”
“That's right.”
“Because you wouldn’t sound like a comedian, yeah?”
“I suppose.”
“Because you'd sound like an eastern European lawyer?”
“What’s wrong with being eastern European?”
He looked around theatrically as if playing to some invisible audience.
“Nothing,” he said innocently, “I was just saying that’s what you’d sound like in the milliseconds between your name being called out by the compere and the audience making their mind up about you. Interesting that you didn’t ask what’s wrong with being a lawyer though, isn’t it? You just focused on the other part.”
“I don’t like lawyers.”
“Nobody likes lawyers, Nick. Even lawyers don’t like lawyers, that’s why they’re always trying to put each other off by wearing those silly wigs.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“You either love who you are onstage, or you love who you are offstage. Nobody does both.”
― Angelo Marcos, The Artist

“A doctor once told me about a patient with OCD who’d been stopped from using the sink as a way to prevent him washing his hands all the time. He’d ended up kneeling over a toilet bowl, dunking his hands in the filthy water in a bid to keep them clean. That’s OCD in a nutshell – rituals which are illogical even to the person doing them, but which we find impossible to stop.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality

“Grief is a virus – festering and lying dormant, then breaking through and decimating you, destroying you from the inside. It’s the bite of a black widow; you never see it coming, you never get a hold of it, and it always gets away. But the bite itself remains, stinging and poisoning and bringing you to the brink of death.”
― Angelo Marcos, The Artist

“Being a functional member of society is overrated. It’s also surprisingly easy to fake.”
― Angelo Marcos, Victim Mentality