Rodney Mullen Quotes

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

I follow the roles.

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

I have been very fortunate, so much is expected of me.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

It is a burden that people have expectations about me.

With a label, pressure is added. Being independent, you don't feel a lot of pressure.

I owe my family first, but I also have others around me that I have to perform for.

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.