Paulette Goddard Quotes

I never felt comfortable in my own skin, and I feel like I missed out on a lot of high school experiences because I was so worried about where I fit in because I was so confused.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

Everyone is insecure, especially in high school.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

I wish I didn't care about what people say about me, but I do.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

We moved in 8th grade, so 7th grade I was doing okay, and then 8th grade, everything fell apart. I had no fashion sense to speak of. We only had a couple of hair care products back then. We didn't have all these things to tame your hair. I had glasses; I had braces. I had it all.

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.