Jason Blum Quotes

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I've always had trouble with authority.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

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.

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

I tend to do things without my parents' permission.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

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.'

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I was always a contrarian.

I just like to do things that aren't supposed to be done.

Do what I will never do.

Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.

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

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.