Unwanted Obligations Quotes

When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you're the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn't want.

I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn't want to do, having to make movies you didn't like.

Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.

My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.

On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

I won't be a pundit because you have to be saying certain things that you might not even want to, but you have to.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

Whenever someone forces me to do something against my will, they're infringing upon my freedoms and my liberties. And that's what I think we're doing in Maine when we have fair share, which means that you are required to belong to a union, you're required to pay dues, but you don't want to participate.

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.