Popular Kids Quotes

#1. Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

Jay Bell

#2. I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Despite his attempts to alter his destiny - joining the worst cohort, trying to change the camp traditions, taking the least glamorous missions, and befriending the least popular kids - he had been made praetor anyway.

Rick Riordan

#4. If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

Alia Shawkat

#5. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.

Matthew Morrison

#6. The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.

Boy George

#7. You could tell exactly where the popular kids were sitting, the jocks, the drama kids, the band kids, the goths, the kickers, and the other kids who just floated in the middle of it all were, of course, the outsiders.

Rhiannon Frater

#8. Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

Tim Dorsey

#9. I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

Rachel Bloom

#10. I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

Jeff Dunham

#11. I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

Nick Jonas

#12. Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

Amy Lee

#13. Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

Alexandra Robbins

#14. Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.

Eugene Mirman

#15. High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

Beth Ditto

#16. I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds ... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

Grant Show

#17. Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

Lauren Ambrose

#18. None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.

Steven Levitan

#19. We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

Mark Hoppus

#20. My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

Chris Daughtry

#21. POPPY (on high school cliques): I wasn't smart enough for the gifted kids or athletic enough for the jocks. I didn't want to s*ck a lot of c*ck, so I couldn't be a cheerleader or popular girl.

Bijou Hunter

#22. When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do.

Guillermo Diaz

#23. I like independent films ... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

Frances O'Grady

#24. I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

Anderson Cooper

#25. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a popular little girl.

Ariel Levy

#26. When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It's a genre of movie I like very much.

Olivier Martinez

#27. I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.

Mr. Muthafuckin' EXquire

#28. I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

George Clinton

#29. Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.

Dan Jenkins

#30. I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

Robert Crumb

#31. I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn't yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.

Will.i.am

#32. I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn those weaknesses into strengths and wear it like a badge and see what it does.

Colin Munroe

#33. What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#34. Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more.

Magenta Periwinkle

#35. The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

Brimstone

#36. I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

Magenta Periwinkle

#37. Musical shows are really popular because there are lots of talented kids out there that can sing and dance.

Justin Chambers

#38. I wanted so badly to be seen, yet my pride prevented me from obviously asking to be seen. I did not want to be seen by demand, but rather by their choosing.

Magenta Periwinkle

#39. There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV.

Tom Kenny

#40. I have vivid memories of junior high school. I didn't quite know how to deal with kids and make friends and all of that. If you talked to people who knew me at the time, they'd think I was a popular kid in school. But boy, I didn't feel that.

Rodman Philbrick

#41. When I set up my Web site, I made a guestbook so kids can write to me there, and that's become one of the most popular parts of the site.

Peter Lerangis

#42. Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

Darren Hayes

#43. I wonder if anyone works any harder at anything than kids do at being popular.

Jodi Picoult

#44. To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Marian Wright Edelman

#45. It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

Edwin Catmull

#46. Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.

Mike Tyson

#47. I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.

Daniel Tosh

#48. I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

Jared Leto

#49. I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Maxwell Caulfield

#50. I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about two years. Went to school with all rich kids. I was the only poor kid in the school, and I was already insecure. But my voice saved me because I sang in school, and I was real popular because of my voice.

Georgia Holt

#51. The bullies are always popular.
Why?
People love power.

Matthew Quick

#52. Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

Joan Cusack

#53. I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!

Steve Valentine