Marla Gibbs Quotes

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.

It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.

I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.

Those heartaches, those cries in your life that you go through, I thought that every kid goes through them. I knew I didn't have much, but I didn't know there was another side out there. I thought one present for Christmas was the way it is.

I know what it's like to be young and to feel like you don't belong.

I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.

A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.