Ann-Margret Quotes

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

I'm a very well-behaved guy!

I wanted to do everything right. I wanted to be good, and I wanted to be obedient, and I wanted to be the object of my parents' pride. I wanted to go to Heaven.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

My parents find me hilarious. They don't pull me up for anything because I'm a good daughter. I stay at home, don't party too much, people don't talk about my affairs or that I am unprofessional. In fact, people tell my parents that I'm so well-brought up. Yes, I tend to shoot my mouth off, but they don't pull me up for that.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

My style is not to challenge anything.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

I follow the roles.

I'm a good boy! I do what I'm told; I'm on time. I'm always where I'm supposed to be when I'm supposed to be there. I don't mess around with other people's time and schedule. And I eat my vegetables. And my meats. And my carbs. And my dairy.

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

I've done everything right, I'm a model citizen.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

In my mother's household, hit shows like 'The Love Boat' and 'Three's Company' were 'not appropriate for nice lit'tle girls.' So was the prospect of staying up past 8:00 P.M. - and don't even think about talking back.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.