Michael Gambon Quotes

I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Does that make sense?

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

What I was really into as a kid, anything that drove my mother crazy or made her nervous, and not much has changed.

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

I was a total bad girl growing up.

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

I've never been a bad boy.

I'm just a troublemaker.

I want to be the bad guy.

I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn't girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

I was a troubled young kid, and I would try to break every rule.

I was a troublemaker.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.

If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.