Fred Armisen Quotes

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

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

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

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

I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Let us then, dear friends, forever bow down to the general reason of society.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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.

The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that - the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don't even think of it as an army strip... it's a world anyone can understand.