Zosia Mamet Quotes

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I was an overweight kid, and I went through a period where, oh my God, they were making cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be mean.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.

Growing up in the '80s in central New Jersey as a weird kid with a blue mohawk listening to the Sex Pistols and dressing really funky, I was bullied pretty badly. It was every single day in elementary school and kept going into middle school, too. I felt totally alone, without a single person there for me.

I remember very vividly going to school, being very happy, and then just having guys there who were just out to make my life miserable.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.

Golly, I hated high school.

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, 'Yeah, it's just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.' You know you're not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that 'just happens.'

I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.

I did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

I was always the weirdo at school.