Danica McKellar Quotes

I never wanted to be in a gang. I didn't want to follow anybody's orders.

At school, everyone smoked cigarettes. I was the rebel who didn't want to. I have never needed anything like that to have a good time, and that also means my experiences are always very real.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.

The key of joy is disobedience.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.