Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

I like pushing boundaries.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

I guess I still have this motto: 'What else can I get away with?' And unpredictability in film - that's the hardest thing there is.

If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone. And generally, people don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone because it's outside of the status quo.

For me, I love doing what is said can't be done.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

By all means break the rules.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.