Jeff Kinney Quotes

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

I was one of the smaller kids growing up.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I think I was a pretty normal kid. I wasn't the prom queen, but I wasn't a freak, either.

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

I had long eyelashes and the other kids used to say I wore mascara.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I could never dream of being cool.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.