Melanie Scrofano Quotes

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

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.

I could never dream of being cool.

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

I'm not a cool girl. I wish I was.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I don't mind not being cool.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?