Sasheer Zamata Quotes

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

I was always the kid dribbling the ball on the sidelines, hoping someone would pick me. I'd go with my older brother to the gym or park, and when I went out there, I'd pass the ball so I could get picked again.

The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I'm just not one of them. But I can't help the way I am.

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.

I've never fit in anywhere in my life. Ever.

People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.

Everybody understands, for whatever reason, what it's like to not fit in, or not do it right, or not be perfect.

I never really fit in anywhere.

Rejection and I are old friends.

I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.

I was the weirdest kid in this small town in Washington. I was the only person who was from somewhere else, so I think they just didn't understand it... They said I was a weirdo or that I didn't belong there. That was the hardest one when people said I didn't belong there.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

I immigrated when I was six so I had to learn English and I was always an outsider from a young age, and so I think my drive was that I wanted to fit in.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.