David Harbour Quotes

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

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

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.'

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

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.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I don't care much about conforming.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

I like being unconventional.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

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

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I just don't conform very well.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.