Quotes About Rebellion

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

I skipped class a lot.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

I don't like clocks.

I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

I was a class clown.

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.

I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.

I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.

I'm a communist, man. I'm going to break the rules.

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

I was very into the truancy concept.

In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.