Robert Kurson Quotes

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

It is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

Bad guys have more fun.

Take a walk on the wild side.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

The bad boy: always more fun.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

I was a total bad girl growing up.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.