Andrej Pejic Quotes

You don't have to be the cool party guy, getting everyone's attention.

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.

When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.

I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I don't mind not being cool.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

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.