I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we’re all nuts on some level. I think you’ve gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn’t rebel in the traditional sense.
It’s natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.
I’m not very good with cars. They rebel against me.
I wasn’t a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn’t work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am.
It’s very nice to be a rebel saying, ‘I stand on my principles,’ but if in fact that’s not going to have any impact on the policy, it may be principled, but it doesn’t deliver the better outcome that the country needs.
I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
If I’m shopping at the Gap or Old Navy, I’m saying that I’m an ordinary person: I don’t want to be seen; I don’t want to stand out. That’s a statement. If I’m wearing a leather jacket, there’s something about me that’s kind of a rebel. So everybody says something, whether they want to or not.
I feel like a rebel in fighting all the negative views of China in the U.S.
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan. And very violent films were a way for me to rebel. You have to rebel against your parents.
I’ve always been like, if society’s trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, ‘Nope, I’m going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.’
I think that, in terms of mainstream storytelling, the rebel gets off way too easy. We’re way too hard on the insiders and way too soft on the outsiders.
There’s always stuff to rebel against.
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
Obama has refused to equip, or to arm, any rebel groups fighting Assad or his forces.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
I rebel at the notion that I can’t be part of other groups, that I can’t construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.
When the first big paycheque with ‘Dumb And Dumber’ hit, I went: ‘Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?’ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
I was a bit of a rebel.
I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That’s when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn’t feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.
In my early career I was sort of anti-drag. I said, ‘Drag is dumb and boring, and I want to be an effing weirdo and go crazy and rebel.’ But now it’s like I’ve come to respect and understand how deep and traditional drag as an art form is.
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this ‘Blonde Angel Image’. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
I’m kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I’m not bad, but I’m not good either. I’m a little crazy.
He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
I didn’t feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.
I’d love to be on ‘Glee.’ I’d love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos.
The thing about fashion – it’s like ducks going quack, quack quack. It’s being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
I wish I could say I am a rebel for love in real life. I don’t think I am so cool.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
You don’t have to burn books, you don’t have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
When Qadhafi was in Libya, he was the major supporter of rebel groups in Sudan. So when the revolution came to Libya, we supported it.
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with – I still do – but to me a rebel isn’t so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.
I’ve always in some way tried to rebel against the norm, but there’s always been a voice deep inside that pressures me to look my best, not leave the house without makeup, etc.
I came into parliament to do things, so I don’t particularly relish being a rebel.
You can’t totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It’s as simple as that.
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don’t think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there’s always a library.
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it – which is probably one reason I didn’t last long in college.
I was a pretty good kid, but I also knew when it was worth breaking the rules. I don’t think that makes you a rebel, though, because that’s still exercising some type of caution.
I think it’s important to rebel a little bit.
The Internet, to me, is about rebel culture, and I’ve always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll or hip-hop, and for a long time now, it’s been the Internet.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Things that make me angry and sad, I cannot hide. It’s not because I want to be a rebel; it’s my instinct. When something touches me deeply, I really have to react.
There’s a side of me that wants to rebel, and as soon as you go down this path with a movie, and you’re supposed to go right, I want to go left, just to see what it’s like. I just want to do it,because the more I know you aren’t supposed to do something, the more I want to do it.
When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.
I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive – like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable – there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.
There’s a frenetic energy in screaming and yelling and being a rebel in a way.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.
I am a rebel.
A lot of people ask why I don’t fly for the airlines now. It’s because of the rebel in me that doesn’t like rules.
When I was a young man, it was very fashionable not to have the sacred thread ceremony, and among very respectable families, mind you. As a rebel, I decided to do it.
Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.
I’ve never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn’t get along with them. My dad’s always been my buddy.
There are plus-size women who’ve paved the way – Rebel Wilson, Gabby Sidibe, Melissa McCarthy. I can’t wait for the day when I can have a conversation, and it’s not about the size of my pants but how I prepared for the role.
I can stand up for what I believe in. I don’t take the word ‘rebel’ in a negative connotation.
To be honest, I’ve always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I’ve earned my own money; I’ve traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
