Jack Dee Quotes

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

I think what people were trying with me was to figure out who I was. They thought I was funny, but they were like, "How can we use this guy so he can regularly do this?" Does that make any sense? I think people were trying to figure out if my fat peg would fit in their square hole.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

My identity, I felt, was so distinct. I felt very much like an outsider. My family didn't have the same rituals that everyone else seemed to have.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.