Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

In general - especially in my youth - I was a bit wild.

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

We made The Who look like church boys on Sunday. We done things only fools'd do.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.

I've always been a little out of control since I was a kid.

Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter.

Take a walk on the wild side.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

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

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

I look like a sweet, corn-fed kid. My roles are my rebellion.

I'm my own worst enemy. I like to eat, and when people tell me to do something I do the opposite.

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.