Paul Dini Quotes

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

It's just so hard growing up: you go through things, especially acting - I go to a different set every couple of months, and you meet an entirely new group of people that are around you 24/7. It's not an easy situation to go into when you're a shy person.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

It wasn't easy for me to socialize with other kids when I got back from touring. I felt different. Like we all do, but I didn't feel like I got all the codes. I was a little awkward.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

I think everyone kinda feels a little out place sometimes.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.