Elaine Stritch Quotes

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

I could never dream of being cool.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Now tell me, why am I not popular in England?

Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.

I've never been cool.

I wasn't unpopular. I didn't have any trouble getting girls.

I was never going to be very cute. I always looked for the best people to play with and, 'cause, to make myself look better.

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Girls that I use to try to talk to, now they want to talk to me.