Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

I don't like doing what people would expect of me.

I've always been proud to be different, I've always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a damn.

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

NEVER! Never, Marge! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

I've always been in a rebel.

I don't run behind authority.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

I really rebel against authority.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

My fans like the rebel in me.

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

Conforming is not cool.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!