Chris Gethard Quotes

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

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 awkward kid.

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

I was a sad kid.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.