Cheri Oteri Quotes

Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

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

I always felt like a misfit.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I still feel like I've crashed the party.

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

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

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'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.