“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold...” – Cameron Frye, Ferris Bueller's Day Off ... Movie Quotes Database

I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.

More from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Cameron Frye Look, don't make me participate in your stupid crap if you don't like the way I do it! You make me get out of bed. You make me come over. You make me make a phony phone call to Edward Rooney? The man could squash my nuts into oblivion. And, and, and then, and then, you deliberately hurt my feelings. Cameron Frye Pardon my French, but you're an asshole! Asshole! Cameron Frye Call me 'sir', goddamn it! (to Edward Rooney over the phone, impersonating Sloane Peterson's father)