John Mulaney Quotes

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

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

The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

I've never been cool.

I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were, and it wasn't me!

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

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

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

I try to be as normal as I can.