John Grant Quotes

I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

In high school, I was scared to dance.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

I think when your imagination goes to work, and when you're first bullied, you feel like you're going to die. School becomes a war zone, and you can't function.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

I go to third grade, and I'm scared to death. I'm just 6 years old, and the kids are so much bigger than me.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

I'm kind of feeling ashamed now that I never get bullied. Everyone keeps asking me, but I don't, and it's kind of annoying. I wish I could say I did get bullied, because then everyone would feel sorry for me.

I was painfully shy as a child.

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I'd get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn't have to see her.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

I was so stressed in the closet. In an interview, I was scared they were going to ask me about a crush, or the type of girl I liked, or whatever it was. And I was going to have to lie by omission. It was always in the back of my mind.

There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

My mum wouldn't let me go outside. Coming back from school, the gang men sometimes would say things, but I would walk by, never answer, and my mum would go tell them leave me alone.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.