Melanie Scrofano Quotes

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

People want to call me weird, 'cringey.'

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.

I consider myself straight, but if I met a guy tomorrow and fell in love with him, would I be brave enough to accept that without having to change the way I look at myself?

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

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

Clifton and I don't even look alike. He smokes and drinks, and I do neither. He's a big fat guy, and if it weren't for me, no one would know who he is.

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

People assume that I'm an aristocrat, but I don't really feel part of any class.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

I don't know what people think of me.

I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

I was a weirdo, but a well-liked weirdo.

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

I was never going to be very cute. I always looked for the best people to play with and, 'cause, to make myself look better.

I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.