Quotes About Rebellion

I went to several public schools. I went to religious school. I was thrown out of Hebrew school, which was the final straw. They said, 'God doesn't like you anymore. Go eat pork.'

I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

My earliest memory of actually definitely wanting to be a filmmaker was when I got thrown out of class when I was 10 and I was storyboarding a short film I wanted to make with my friend's camera.

We used to joke that we were more scared of the police than we were of the devil. You had to have I.D. with you all the time or else the police would throw you in jail. I got thrown in jail twice for not having I.D., and walking in there was like walking through the gates of hell.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I'm a thug and I rap.

The NWO, yeah, we're a bunch of outlaws, thugs, whatever you want to call us, but... we do what we want, when we want. And we're having fun doing it.

As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.

Rock and roll promotes a primitive and destructive lifestyle. Metal can be seen as a subgenre of rock and roll, and thus, metal is not much better.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.

You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

I ran away from my home in Gwalior and bought myself a ticket to Delhi. That was the nearest metro, and the cheapest ticket was for Rs 74.

I get parking tickets all the time.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

I am fearlessly independent. I have the courage to go against the tide and pay a price for my choices.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.