Quotes About Belonging

I'm an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to.

I've always felt like an outsider in this industry, but that sense of community - that sense of belonging with your fans - it's an amazing feeling, and it's really inspiring.

I am not an insider - definitely not... but I don't think you could call me an outsider.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

No, as much of an insider as I become, I will still always be an outsider. It's just the essence of me being who I am and doing what I do.

I'd always been interested in the idea of the outsider.

I did feel a bit of an outsider in the Eighties. But there was a market for me out there. New Romantics were totally different.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don't get outsiders.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy.

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

I feel like theater in high school seems to be sort of like the safe haven for the outsiders and people who don't necessarily fit in. And it was a come-as-you-are sort of class, and it's a come-as-you-are after-school activity.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

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.

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.

I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.