Daily Inspiration Quote by David Walliams

A line like this lands because it’s got the uncomfortable snap of confession, not the polished arc of a victim-to-triumph story. David Walliams frames bullying as something he “loved,” and that single verb yanks the listener out of the expected moral script. It’s a risky inversion: the problem isn’t minimized, but the narrator’s psychology gets complicated in a way that feels brutally plausible for a kid hungry to be noticed.

The intent reads as self-exposure with a wink of performance. Walliams, a comic actor with a public persona built on exaggeration and social discomfort, understands that audiences lean in when you violate the tidy categories: bullied people are supposed to be purely harmed, bullies purely cruel. By admitting to craving the attention, he smuggles in a harder truth about childhood hierarchies: visibility can feel like oxygen, even when it’s delivered as ridicule. Being targeted can perversely confer a role, a spotlight, a proof that you exist in the room.

The subtext is also defensive. Recasting pain as chosen attention can be a way to reclaim agency after the fact, turning vulnerability into a punchline you control. It hints at a coping strategy that later becomes a professional skill: making discomfort legible, laughable, and therefore survivable.

Context matters, too. Coming from a celebrity, it nudges the narrative toward origin story: the performer as the kid who learned that attention, any attention, is currency. It’s not an excuse for bullying; it’s an x-ray of how social hunger can distort what we’ll accept just to be seen.