Brad Garrett Quotes

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

I was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it - but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life.

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

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.'

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time by myself. I ate lunch by myself, and I was always okay with it. But I was definitely made fun of, and I always felt like an outsider.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.

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.

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

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

I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.

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

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

I don't know if I feel like an outsider or an insider; I just feel like I always did. I don't have one of those stories where I felt like no one understood me.