Michael Kelly Quotes

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

I was a rebellious kid, always getting into trouble.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

I had a reputation in high school for making trouble.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

I was a troublemaking kid.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I did fine in school. School was cool until I started personally rebelling.

I got kicked out of school because I was wilding.

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

My mother was very strict, and though I was reserved, I did give in to certain demands of my age, like sneaking out of the house to hit Dublin.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.