Kevin-Prince Boateng Quotes

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

After my Kannada debut, I went through a difficult phase in life. People would make fun of me behind my back, and there were days I would cry alone for hours.

It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

If somebody tells you to lose weight, it is like a punch in the face.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.

When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's intangible, depression is an issue that people don't like to talk about. It's like a huge, guilty secret.

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

It hurts when people put you down.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

Once you get depressed, you don't really feel like doing anything. You're kind of discouraged about yourself, and then the weight gain, too, or that makes me more depressed.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.