John Cusack Quotes

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple.

As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

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've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

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

I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the world is to be the child who comes in and says, 'Hi,' to everyone and goes up and makes friends.

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

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

We moved in 8th grade, so 7th grade I was doing okay, and then 8th grade, everything fell apart. I had no fashion sense to speak of. We only had a couple of hair care products back then. We didn't have all these things to tame your hair. I had glasses; I had braces. I had it all.

I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games.

No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, years.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.

People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.

Girls like me more sober.

My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school - I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.