I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.
I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
I didn't fit in on my football team; I was always the odd one out.
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
I think we are reluctant to move people out of an organization when there is not a good fit. It is typically not because someone is stupid or lazy or incompetent; it is a lot more subtle than that.
In school, I was the weird kid, I guess.
I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.
I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in.
I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
I'm the git in the family.
It's just a moment that doesn't feel 100-percent truthful, a kind of a square peg/round hole situation. Which is why the preproduction on a movie is so important, because you can't just push those through.
I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.
I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.
I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
I have an interest in the outsider.
