Emily Watson Quotes

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

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.

I know I'm unpopular.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'

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.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

I do not enjoy when people don't like me.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.