Matt Barnes Quotes

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

When you're not needed somewhere, it never feels great.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'

I'm Asian, so they assumed I'm not an American and that I come from Japan. Restaurants would refuse to serve me, and places would refuse to give you a haircut.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.

I feel like the red-headed stepchild of Young Money.

I've become accustomed to not being cast for television and film because of how I look.

Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.

I've been put down, pushed aside, knocked out.

The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I'm just not one of them. But I can't help the way I am.

I've endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I've visited and lived in. Available taxis - as indicated by their roof lights - locked their doors with embarrassingly loud clicks as I approached. Or they've just ignored my hail altogether.

Even though we were selling more records than a lot of pop acts, we were being treated like the redheaded stepchildren.

If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone.

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Honestly, not being well received makes me feel very vulnerable. Not being included or regarded highly enough makes me crazy.

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.