Jeff Greenfield Quotes

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

School is not for me. I'm volatile and hate being told what to do.

I've kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

I'm definitely not a rebel.

When you're in a world, and your parents are one way, and you're told, 'This is how the whole world is, and this is how you're supposed to be,' and you're terribly unhappy in that world, it's a very scary thing.

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.

I never wanted to work a 9 to 5. I was always a different kid in class.

My parents aren't really conformists.

I am not a conformist.

When people tell me that I must get my maverick gene from my father, they are only half right. My father and I both have inherited our rebellious personalities from Nana. She has always lived her life on her own terms, something that was once considered quite scandalous, given the times she grew up in.

I'm just not very rock n' roll.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family - one generation to the next.

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.