Feist Quotes

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

I've never been a yes man.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

I don't care what anyone says.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

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 developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I've always had trouble with authority.

I've never been any good with authority.

I've always been in a rebel.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I don't run behind authority.

I really rebel against authority.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.