Reactance Quotes

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

I've only been an asshole to assholes!

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

The best way to motivate me is to tell me I can't do something.

If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.

Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'

Sydney: Ever had that happen? Once you can’t have something, you want it that much more.” Adrian: “Yes. It happens all the time.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

I think the quickest way to get me to do something is really, 'You can't do that.' And I'm like, 'OK, I will make that happen.'

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

The best way to motivate me is to tell me no.

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

If I'm like, 'Oh, this is not something that I want to do,' that means I have to do it. That's always a good motivation.

I'm usually a mellow, go-with-the-flow person, except when someone tells me I should do something. Then I get stubborn. If they don't back off, I get this horrible rage and want to kill them. When I was four and my mom would send me to my room, I'd get so mad I'd go outside and bang my head on the sidewalk.