Robbie Williams Quotes

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

No, I'm not politically correct. I never wanted to be, and I never will be.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.