Marisol Nichols Quotes

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager is all about! Whether you admit it or not, you are all worried that the others won’t accept you, that if they knew the real you, they would recoil in horror. Each of us carries with us a secret shame that we think is somehow unique…And if we are, each of us, freaks – then can’t we accept what’s different in each other and move on?

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

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

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

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.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

Being different makes you beautiful.

Don't let yourself be small because you want to fit in.

I know who I am and I know who I'm not. I'm different, yes, and I am big. But I love who I am.