Noel Fielding Quotes

Growing up, I wanted blond hair.

When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

I long ago realized it was not a figure of speech when people come up to me and say they grew up watching me since they were 'that big.'

I like my face. It's cheeky - dare I say, Chaplinesque.

When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.

In television, to be a hero and look like I look, that really stuck with me.

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That's when you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.

I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.