Paul Feig Quotes

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

Throughout school, I've faced ridicule and been complexed about my appearance. I almost turned into a nervous wreck. Peer pressure is bad. Children can be really cruel. Specially if you're not like everyone else.

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

I felt uncomfortable in cliques.

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

I was actually always really self-conscious about my gap. In middle school, this group of girls were always trying to beat me up - they called my gap a parking lot. It was a really awkward time.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn't invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, 'He's not good enough. Might not even make it to college.'

I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.