Richard Simmons Quotes

It's important to reach out to people who are marginalized.

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

You have turned me out; you have turned me out.

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

I don't belong much anywhere.