Mo Rocca Quotes

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.

In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by using humor. It's amazing how you can blend in with that.

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.

I was not the hot, popular girl in school.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

I guess I was popular in high school.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.

I was voted by my high school senior class as most likely to recede.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.

I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.

High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.