Chris Hardwick Quotes

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

These good Christians do not have the courage to face me. They follow my children around and shout at them, "Your father is a mass murderer" and other terrible epithets.

I was different. I got beat up every day.

My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they're gonna do it.

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

I feel like everyone in life someway or somehow may have been bullied - or may have been a bully.

I got beat up my whole life.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

I get beat up on every project.

If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.