Emily Watson Quotes

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I don't think I gave my mom too much trouble as a teenager.

I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college.

My teenage years were pretty - I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it's really confusing and your feelings are so raw.

I don't take well to rules.

I am a Conservative, so I don't wish to be seen as a rebel, particularly, at all.

Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.

I'm a very well-behaved guy!

I'm not going to revolutionise football. I'm in a system. You have to know how to respect it and to stay in place.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

All I do is get up in the morning and go where I'm told to go.

I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.