Chloe Grace Moretz Quotes

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

My parents never let me have everything.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

Limits are very important.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

In being strict, you were able to control.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

A rule is a rule.

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.

My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

My kids would say I'm strict, but I don't think I am.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'