Krysten Ritter Quotes

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.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

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 was not the popular kid in school.

I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, 'What're you talking about? Shut up.' And I realised that I was the weird one.

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

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

I never was a popular kid in class.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

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

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

No one in my school liked me.

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Everyone is against me - except the people!

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.