Portia Doubleday Quotes

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.

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

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

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

People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

What makes you different, makes you dangerous.

The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.