Patton Oswalt Quotes

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

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

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.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.

I've never been cool.

I think I was a pretty normal kid. I wasn't the prom queen, but I wasn't a freak, either.

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

There is power in having a friend group because you have this bond that helps you navigate girl world, and it creates safety and self-esteem. But if you speak up to the leader, you risk that social isolation or not having a group and feeling really left out.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

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 thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

I could never dream of being cool.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

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

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

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.

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

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