Quotes About Defiance

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

There is always someone who is going to look for the cracks.

I know a lot of people will talk crap at me, but they can say whatever they want.

I didn't take a lot of crap from people, and I didn't follow the conventional rules of behavior that we're supposed to follow - because if I had, I never would have accomplished what I did.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

I don't take criticism lying down.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

There is always the person who's got to stand on the sandcastle, they must crush it.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

No damn man kills me and lives.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

People can attack me personally, say what they want - I don't give a damn.

Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems.

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there's something that's always been attracted to that taboo. It's been like that since I was a child.

When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so,' I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level.' But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.