Paul Feig Quotes

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

In high school, I was scared to dance.

I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.

I was terrified of girls until sophomore year of high school. I couldn't even borrow pencils from them. I'd have to wait until the teacher called me out on it, like, 'Does anybody have a pencil for Teddy?' because I'd be too scared to ask the girl next to me.

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

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.

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

I was a total dork in high school.

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.

I was really shy and kept to the theater department. I was keeping my eyes down when I walked through the halls. So, no nemesis. Not in high school, anyway.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of 'Junk,' which doesn't do a lot for one's self-esteem.

On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.

Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything - control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat - at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety.

I was bullied in high school, and it's interesting coming from the other side of the camera lens, finding out that all of these people that I thought were my antagonists in my life were probably just as insecure as I was at that age.

When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.

Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.