Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I just don't really listen to music. I'm probably missing out, but I don't want to know what everybody else is doing. Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced. And I don't mean influenced by copying - I'd be influenced because I wouldn't want to do what someone else is doing. I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything.

I go out and I say and do what I want - even if people may find that shocking. One could, of course, decide to be suffocated by all the pomp here in Élysée Palace. But if you decide to resist it, then you won't be suffocated.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Nobody owns me or my music.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I'm going to do whatever I want as long as it's country. I mean, I'm not much on naysayers, so I'll just do whatever. If I like it, I'll do it.

I'm part of a generation that's saying, 'I don't want to do just one thing, and I'm going to do things the way I want.'

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.