Mark E. Smith Quotes

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

I was always very small, so growing up, I was always getting kicked around. It was something I kind of grew up with.

My older brother used to punch me all the time because I was a nerd.

I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.

As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren't wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.

I'm like Shrek. Shrek's a nice guy, but people keep alienating him, like they did with me in my younger life. I'm very loving and kind and generous - I'm a sweetheart!

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.

I'm a nice guy, but people want to kill me.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

No one tells you that when you get older sometimes you never escape the bullying. I had no idea people could be as mean as they are when you're an adult.

I have two older sisters.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.

I don't want to be a punching bag.

I have four sisters, three younger sisters, so I've been an older sibling to people before.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

I had three brothers: one older, two younger.

Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.