Kevin Clifton Quotes

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

I don't mind not being cool.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

Don't do things just to impress others or just because you're scared you won't have any friends.

I really never want to try to be cool.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.

I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

I think it is very important that you like yourself for who you are and not want to look like anyone else. You also have to understand, many people have had cosmetic surgeries in order to look the way they look. So why look like them when you can just look like you? And there is nothing wrong with looking like you.

I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.

I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.