rebel spirit Quotes

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

The society wants you to have beautiful personalities; the society wants you to have personalities which are comfortable for the society, convenient for the society. But the person is not the real thing, the individual is the real thing. The individual is not necessarily always comfortable to the society - in fact he is very inconvenient.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

I am a rebel, and I relate to the rebel spirit in Chenault [from the Rhum Dairy].

Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?

That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.

Goodie Mob is my passion, the core of me, the fight, the struggle. I'm still as much of an underdog as I ever was, and my music is still as anti-establishment as it ever was. I want to satisfy that rebel side. It's not null and void. I'm a whole being, and I'm just coming back full circle.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

We all have to remember that New Zealand is built on these kind of people who are rebels and renegades, people doing it their own way, fighting for freedom, and braving the elements. I think it's cool to celebrate that.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.