Alex Kingston Quotes

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

I don't want the world to dislike me in any way.

Even when I was young, I cared too much about what other people thought, especially girls.

I can't bear not to be liked, and I've always been a people pleaser.

I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.

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 was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

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.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

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 think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.