Frank McCourt Quotes

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there's this sense of displacement - I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.

I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I don't know how to not be outside since I was a little kid.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.