Miles Heizer Quotes

Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

I was not the popular kid in school.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

I have experienced things that I think many Canadians have gone through - the feeling of not belonging, the feeling of being a victim, of being hurt, being marginalized.

Like many others who stand out, I was picked on.

I was ostracized by my community.

I was taunted because I was different.

I am a marked person, and no one who's unmarked is going to understand that. It's very intimidating. I don't even know what my place is anymore. What's my role in society? Who am I, after everybody has branded me?

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

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I was different and people made fun of me.

Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.