Larry Bishop Quotes

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

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

I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

My parents aren't really conformists.

Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know, Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.