Richard Paul Evans Quotes

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in America—probably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

I think you've got to be able to relate to what teens are going through.

Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.

Gay, straight - whatever - adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that's such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

I think regular school is harder than my job. You have to deal with kids picking on you, and you wanting to look good and all this stuff. It was way too much pressure.

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

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

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.

My high school experience was very different than the high school experience on 'Skins.'

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

I was just a scrawny, skinny kid just trying to survive like any other boy in high school.

I was one of the smaller kids growing up.

When you think of a teenager, you think of hanging out with friends a lot or going to a full-time school. On the weekends, my friends are staying up until, like, one in the morning, and then there's me fighting to stay up until eight.

I was one of the people that always got chosen last, and I think I bulked up my comedy bone to make up for my lack of friends.

Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques.

With any teen show, there's going to be drama and heartache.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.