Gene Hackman Quotes

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

I've never been any good with authority.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.

I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.