Quotes About Defiance

A book about me? He's putting me in his book? I don't want to be in his fucking book! I want my lawyer in this room. If he puts me in his book, I'll fucking sue him.

When Derek Abbott was arrested in London, he didn't care. I still remember the day he came in, sitting there with this look on his face like he was the lord of the manor who'd accidentally wandered into the servants' quarters. The police weren't going to get anywhere near him, not in a hundred years!

It's always been my belief that the best way to weaken your enemies, whether they are bullies, politicians or unpleasant relatives, is to laugh at them.

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I'm not saying I'm Mr Goody Two Shoes. I'm not. But if you try to rough me up, I'm going to body-slam you. I'm going to do everything I have to do psychologically to tell you that you are not stronger than me.

I think it's important for black people in general to be aware of what's going on and do what you got to work around it. Not bow down to it publicly.

If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

When, no matter what you do, everybody's going to punch holes in it, then you just go and you do what you want. And that's the most freeing place to be.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

I'm punk, but I love gold.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk.

I was such a punk.

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

Guys are going to talk. We're going to respond... they aren't going to punk us. Not me. They're not going to punk Tristan Thompson.

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.