Robert Eggers Quotes

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.

Ultimately, I do my best to not subscribe to things that are unnecessarily negative, harmful, or hurtful to somebody.

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

I don't think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back.

For those who feel the need to be bullies, I ignore them.

I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won't mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.

Bullying is so common that it's viewed as almost 'normal,' but it should never be.

I have learnt that bullies use fear and intimidation as their primary weapons.

In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.

I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'

Oh my gosh, I mean, I've had many experiences of men calling me psycho.

When I would get close on a part but wouldn't get it, I would be like, "They made a mistake," which is not how I think about things now. I both admire it and I'm grateful for the modicum of health, knowledge, and humility that I have acquired over the last 10 or 15 years.

There's no need to bully; be kind to unwind!

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.