Break Quote by Liz Phair

When I was younger, there was that desire to be cool and to fit in and to look a certain way. And I was…

— Arlo Parks

Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing…

— Rachel Bloom

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second…

— Marsha Mason

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of…

— Amy Adams

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

— Madonna Ciccone

I don't even know how I became cool.

— Princess Nokia

We moved around a lot at first as a kid, and then I was on the road at 17, and new in town by…

— Lynda Carter

I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything…

— Geena Davis

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what…

— Roscoe Mitchell

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't…

— Lady Gaga

When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation…

— Walter Matthau

I tried to assimilate and mix myself in with everybody, but I still stood out because of my mannerisms, the way I spoke, my…

— Brad Goreski