Jim Cummings Quotes

It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

I was a bit of a rebel.

I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

I break rules all the time.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

I'm the last of the mad ones.

My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.