Carly Chaikin Quotes

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

He [Richard Nixon] was more lacking in self-confidence than any leading politician I have known.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.

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

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them.

Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'

I lived at home and found myself really, really lonely because all my friends were enjoying college and partying, and I didn't have that.

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.

No one would hang out with me if I didn't have music to make.

Abs are for people with no friends.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

When I was growing up, I didn't have tons and tons of friends.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

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.