Jon Cryer Quotes

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

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

Maybe it's stupidity, but you just gotta jump into things. That's how I've gone through life.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

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

I like to get wild.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

I've made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

Being spontaneous at times is a must. Being spontaneous all the time is a crazy person.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well. I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.