Rebel Mentality Quotes

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

I've always identified with the misfits.

I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.