Julia Davis Quotes

I get angry when people push people around.

If they are laughing at you, how can they bludgeon you to death?

I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.

Insulting players and coaches and spitting on us is simply wrong. You cannot go out and walk around town and just start insulting people or spit at them either.

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

When people are this mean, there's no other way to deal with them.

[On appeasement:] If you let a bully come into your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

A boy on the team, who shall remain nameless, constantly picked on me during practice. I bided my time, and when I had the chance to wrestle him, I took every advantage I could. I bent fingers, dug my nails into his skin and rammed my elbow into various, tender, parts of him. I basically beat him down in front of the whole team.