Taika Waititi Quotes

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.

I was taunted because I was different.

Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.

There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.

I was ostracized by my community.

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

I am a marked person, and no one who's unmarked is going to understand that. It's very intimidating. I don't even know what my place is anymore. What's my role in society? Who am I, after everybody has branded me?

I saw in my life what pushed a lot of people to drugs was being an outcast to society, so being gay I related to that.

I was called a freak because I was so engrossed in music.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

I'm 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.

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

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

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 think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

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

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.