James Frey Quotes

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

I don't like rules.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

It was just, I was always contrarian. I was always, you know, 'We want to do this with you,' 'No, I want to do that.' In so many things, I wanted to do things my way.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?' 'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.