Quotes About Rebellion

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

Never get out of bed before noon.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

I still got the nasty in me.

I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

I've got this inflatable Darth Vader that I stole off the roof of a Burger King. I went in and asked the girl at the counter if I could have it, and she said she didn't care, but she wasn't going to get me a ladder or anything like that. So I just kind of pulled myself up there, cut it loose and took off.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it in my coat. And I think it was 'Cry Baby' by The Bonnie Sisters. That or 'Lucille' by Little Richard.

It's the all-American girl gone bad. Initially, the name callings from 6- and 7-year-olds was tough. My heart was in my stomach. But it is more fun to play someone that you are not.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.