Amy Sedaris Quotes

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

I never thrived in high school.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.