Merrill Markoe Quotes

Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.

I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.

I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while.

We all remember growing up with mean girls, right?

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

I had friends who were jocks or whatever... Then, around 12 or 13, kids get cliquish and cruel, and that disgusted me. It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. So I got really aggressive about it and became more of a weird kid.

Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.

I'd say I get heckled quite a lot because I look quite like an easy target. If you're an alpha-male and you think you've got something to prove to your girlfriend, I think I'm the perfect person to prove your worth.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

Even when I was growing up and playing with friends I used to get kicked.

Almost every woman I've met has encountered bullying.

When I was 15, I was about seven stone - the average weight for a kid of 11 in them days was about nine stone. I managed to keep my head down because there was about half a dozen heavies in the class and there was bullying in them days. But I stayed one step ahead of them all the time.

I think children are really violent with each other often.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.