Twinkle Khanna Quotes

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

I was a fat kid. I can laugh now. But I got teased about being an Oompa Loompa and stuff like that.

I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'

I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

People laugh at me, and that's fine. I laugh at myself, too.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn't participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Sometimes I get ideas from childhood. In 'The Hat', Hedgie starts getting teased about his hat, and he just pretends that everything is okay. That's the advice that my mother gave me - not to get mad and pretend that everything is okay. And it worked.

I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.

When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.