Jemima Kirke Quotes

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I've always been in a rebel.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I never quite toed the line.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

I've always found it hard to do what I'm told - I'm not very good at conforming.

Often I'd say I understood the coach, then do my own thing on the field.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I've never been a yes man.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.