Quotes About Rebellion

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior.

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.

The whole point of remaining on cable is to remain true to who I am. That's a bad, bad girl that got a big job.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.

What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing and supplication.

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

I remember, when I was a kid, I was a class clown, and I got into a lot of trouble for it, and I had to be put in a special class. Back in the eighties, in Nepean, Ontario, they just had a class for anyone they didn't want around. It was sort of like school jail.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.

'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities.

Reminding oneself that not all rules are good rules and sometimes it's good to challenge them is an important part of being an effective parliamentarian.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

'Konnichiwa' was made because I don't like the industry. I really had to remove myself from it to understand myself.

How I can be an active voice for gay people but also the music industry? This is the art we need right now. This is what we need right now. We're in a renaissance, and we need people to rebel, come forth, and bring messages into art.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

I am a brat by nature and I don't repent what I do.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.