Natalie Dormer Quotes

I was a very determined kid. I couldn't imagine any other life for myself. This happens to kids who are different in any way. How am I going to make a life? Who am I going to be when I grow up? Will there be a place for me in the world? Acting gave me a sense of purpose, but it also gave me a sense that I would survive, that I would find my place.

I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I'm standing out because I realize who I really am.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.

When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look for differences when you're adult, and that's what makes you shine and stand out.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do.

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it's what made Shannon Briggs, it's who I am.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

It's important to remember, most people have been bullied, and it makes you a stronger person in the long run.

Going to school, sort of not realising that caring about things was going to make me stand out and make me weird, and I think also being a redhead and being tall, bigger than the other kids... Anything that makes you different at school makes you a target.

For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.