Benji Madden Quotes

I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.

I'm not going to shed a tear for not being liked.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

No one gave a crap that I was the kid from 'Free Willy'. You're not in some wispy fantasyland where everyone's telling you 'yes' all the time, which happens a lot to actors.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.

Popularity was never my mistress, nor was I ever, or shall I ever be a popular man.

Vice president is the bridesmaid, and nobody cares about you. Nobody wants you. You're just in the way. You're there to play a subsidiary role. You're like the middle child or the poor relation.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

I've always identified with the misfits.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.