Garry Trudeau Quotes

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.

I was actually a really sort of nervous, shy kid. In high school, it was one of those things where I wasn't popular or a loser; I just don't think many people really knew who I was.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.