Lamorne Morris Quotes

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

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.

It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear glasses.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

I was actually always really self-conscious about my gap. In middle school, this group of girls were always trying to beat me up - they called my gap a parking lot. It was a really awkward time.

We've all been the brunt of jokes at times.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

I was a fat kid. I can laugh now. But I got teased about being an Oompa Loompa and stuff like that.

Well, you've got to learn how to make fun of yourself - you know what I mean?

I was one of the people that always got chosen last, and I think I bulked up my comedy bone to make up for my lack of friends.

My siblings would tease me and call me big friendly or freaky giant, and later, when I was approached about modeling, they would joke, 'The BFG is gonna be a model? That clunky thing?' They know how to keep me in check all right.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

If you get made fun for the way you look, then maybe wearing the same thing every day is the best way to protect yourself.

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.