Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

Just speaking for myself, when I'm complimented for being Vietnamese-American in television - the only one - that doesn't make me feel happy, that makes me feel really lonely, actually.

I guess I've lived my whole life as an outsider.

I'm an outsider.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

My experience as a black woman in the industry is simply that often I was the only one in the room. Often I would be the only woman and the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several women but the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several people of color, but the only woman.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.

I always feel like an outcast... it's just always been very different to everyone else.

I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

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.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.