Mel Giedroyc Quotes

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.

Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a young age. There was a lot of misplaced rage in high school towards me. My brothers and sisters identified it as bullying, but I didn't at the time.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, 'Yeah, it's just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.' You know you're not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that 'just happens.'

I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.

Even when I was growing up and playing with friends I used to get kicked.

When I was in fifth grade, I got bullied really nastily about my appearance.

I weighed 84 pounds when I was 14. I was an easy target for the other kids.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

Being bullied is something I experienced in school, and it is not fun.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.