Aging & Wisdom Quote by Nicolette Sheridan

Immigration gets sanitized in celebrity profiles, but Sheridan’s line keeps the bruise visible. “I came over when I was 10” is a deceptively plain setup: the age does the heavy lifting, signaling a moment when identity is still soft enough to be reshaped and old enough to feel every cut. The next clause, “which was very difficult,” could have been generic therapy-speak; she rescues it with a blunt reason that refuses metaphor: “everybody made fun of me.” Not “some kids,” not “I struggled to fit in,” but a totalizing “everybody” that captures how childhood humiliation feels - like the whole world is in on the joke.

As an actress, Sheridan is also telling an origin story that doubles as a career footnote. The entertainment industry rewards polish and reinvention, yet her subtext is that reinvention often begins as survival. Being mocked is a formative kind of rehearsal: you learn which parts of yourself draw fire, how to read a room fast, how to protect the core while adjusting the surface. That’s not romanticizing bullying; it’s explaining how a public persona can be forged under pressure.

Culturally, the quote lands in a familiar immigrant narrative, but with a specific angle: the cruelty isn’t bureaucratic, it’s social. The border she’s describing is accent, manner, taste - the small tells that make a child “other” in a classroom. Her intent reads as both confession and quiet rebuttal to the idea that success cancels out the costs of arriving. The sting, she implies, travels with you.