Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

I was a slightly geeky kid.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I was a nerdy kid.

I was a bookish nerd.

I was someone that loved to seek attention when I was younger.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.

I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

In school I related to boys.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.