Missy Peregrym Quotes

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I definitely spent a lot of high school isolating myself because I didn't feel like I fit in. I learned how to be funny.

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.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

It took me a long time to blossom. Everyone else understood how to socialize and how to look. I didn't get the memo.

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

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?'

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.

I never felt comfortable in my own skin, and I feel like I missed out on a lot of high school experiences because I was so worried about where I fit in because I was so confused.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

I was never cool as a kid.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.