Julie Plec Quotes

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.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

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.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

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.

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

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you're ugly is the one that sticks.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.