Peer Criticism Quotes

On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in every class I went to they kept pointing out that I couldn't wear these shoes. I wanted to call my mom and have her bring me new shoes!

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

In middle school, one day this girl was like, 'One day you wore Abercrombie, and one day you wore Quicksilver.' I was like, 'Hold on... what?' I'm usually really calm, but I kind of went off on her. Because I decided to wear Quicksilver one day, you can't place me? How stupid to have to live inside that box.

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.

Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go in to somewhere where the majority were boys. At that age, they were quite vocal about what they thought of your looks.

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.