15 Movie Quotes about Breaking the Rules

15 qtes – September 21, 2020

Rules are meant to be broken, right?

Nope, not encouraging you to legal infringement, cultural disobedience, violation of social protocol or any other limited form of anarchy and/or chaos. We as human beings and society have to constantly challenge the rules, adapt to new situations and make sure to change those rules to fit a sense of current, and future practicality. But we all have our own personal rules that guide us throughout our entire lives. And sometimes you have to take a risk and break those rules. Otherwise no horizons will ever be expanded. In other words, rules are meant to be broken for the people who have the guts to break them and achieve what they desire. Check these movie quotes about rules and how sometimes you just gotta break them.

From the movie: Zombieland 2: Double Tap

“- Tallahassee: Rules are for pussies, nothing personal.
- Columbus: How could that not be personal? That’s like my whole thing.
- Tallahassee: Yeah, you’re right. It was personal.”

Woody Harrelson - Tallahassee
Jesse Eisenberg - Columbus

From the movie: Five Feet Apart

“- Stella: You're the kind of guy that ignores the rules because it makes you feel in control. Am I right?
- Will: You're not wrong.”

Haley Lu Richardson - Stella
Cole Sprouse - Will

From the movie: Booksmart

“- Molly: We haven't done anything. We haven't broken any rules.
- Amy: Okay, we've broken a lot of rules. One: We have fake IDs.
- Molly: Fake college IDs, so we can get into their 24-hour library.
- Amy: Name one person whose life was so much better because they broke a couple of rules.
- Molly: Picasso.
- Amy: He broke art rules. Name a person who broke a real rule.
Molly: Rosa Parks.
- Amy: Name another one.
- Molly: Susan B. Anthony.
- Amy: God dammit.”

Beanie Feldstein - Molly
Kaitlyn Dever - Amy

From the movie: Live by Night

“I realized it's not enough to break the rules. You have to be strong enough to make your own”

Ben Affleck - Joe Coughlin

From the movie: Hustlers

“The game is rigged, and it does not reward people who play by the rules.”

Jennifer Lopez - Ramona

From the movie: Tristana

“- Don Zenón: And the Ten Commandments?
- Don Lope: I respect all of them, except those to do with sex, because I'm sure they were added to the truly divine ones by Moses for political reasons that don't affect me.”

José María Caffarel - Don Zenón
Fernando Rey - Don Lope

From the movie: Rules of Engagement

“- Major Biggs: There are rules and Marines are sworn to uphold them.
- Childers: I was not going to stand by and see another Marine die just to live by those fucking rules.”

during a court martial hearing

Guy Pearce - Major Biggs
Samuel L. Jackson - Childers

From the movie: Star Trek Into Darkness

“Nobody knows the rules better than you, Spock, but sometimes exceptions have to be made!”

Chris Pine - James T. Kirk

From the movie: Seventh Son

“The rules, Tom, do not be bound by them. Use them in your own way. Live your own life. Your destiny.”

Jeff Bridges - Master Gregory

From the movie: The Cider House Rules

“I'm just tryin' to put things straight. Sometimes, ya gotta break some rules, to put things straight.”

Delroy Lindo - Mr. Rose

From the movie: Twilight Zone: The Movie