Unwanted Obligation Quotes

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

The great mass of 18-year olds ... are given no choice.... The older generation immolates the younger, on the alter of Moloch ]. What God, centuries ago, forbade Abraham to do even to his own son,—"Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him" [Genesis 22:12]—this we do by decree to the entire youth of a nation.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

I was tired of playing a ghost.

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

When I was 17, my mum made me work in a cake factory for three days - I hated it.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

If I hadn't wanted to become a footballer, Dad wouldn't have made me do it.

Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.

I don't want to do a cameo just for the heck of it.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

Everybody has had that experience where your friend drags you to a party because the person they're crushing on is there, and you don't really want to be there but you go there with them anyway.

Nobody held a gun to my head and forced me to write recaps about the tenth season of 'American Idol.' Although I feel like someone must have and I just forgot about it.