Laura Whitmore Quotes

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

I could never dream of being cool.

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

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

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

I was never cool as a kid.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

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.

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.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

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.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

I've never been cool.

I don't know who can really relate to being cool. Even people who you think are cool, they are trying to be cool. Nobody can understand the feeling of being cool, really.

I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'