nickname quotes

Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‚Bad Bunny.‘

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

I never have really become accustomed to the ‚John.‘ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – John Wayne.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.