Nicholas Brendon Quotes

I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.

I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way.

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

We all feel at some point of our lives that we're different, that we don't fit in.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.

Everyone fears rejection.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.