Todd McFarlane Quotes

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way.

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.