Ariana Grande Quotes

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I can't stand it when people get bullied or feel ugly or worthless.

When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

Like everyone, I had low self-esteem, and I wanted to be like the pretty, popular girls.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

I don't want the world to dislike me in any way.

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people. You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

I always thought I wasn't cool enough in school, I was in the 'nerd' crew. I actually enjoyed studying.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

Paper Doll' is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.

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

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.