Charlotte Rampling Quotes

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

I am a contrarian.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

I always tried to be different from everyone else. Then I found out about boxing. That was the way I could be different from everyone else. I always went against the crowd.

I have contrarian tendencies.

Often I'd say I understood the coach, then do my own thing on the field.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

I like to be against the odds.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.