Neena Gupta Quotes

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

I've always been in a rebel.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

I never quite toed the line.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

I'm definitely not a rebel.

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.

We never want to toe the line.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.