John Krasinski Quotes

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

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

It never occurred to me that I'm intimidating.

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

I think the debating thing actually helped to establish to me that being popular was completely worthless. I didn't enjoy the social dynamic and immediately left after becoming number one. But it felt like I needed to do it to know what it was like. It wasn't just that I was an aggressive person, although that probably is true to an extent.

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

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

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.

I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

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