David Hewlett Quotes

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

In every high school, there is a clique.

Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.

I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the 'In Crowd.' I was one of the cooler kids.

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.

When I was in college, I wasn't in a fraternity or anything. I always wanted to jump around to all different types of cliques.

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

People's opinions outside of my direct group of friends means next to nothing.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by using humor. It's amazing how you can blend in with that.

My entire life goal was to be accepted by everyone. I think that's what I wanted the most. I never got it.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.