Nerd famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
-- Alessandra Torresani -
It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.
-- Allison Williams -
Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.
-- Alyson Hannigan -
Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.
-- Amber Benson -
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
-- Amy Adams -
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
-- Amy Poehler -
There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.
-- Analeigh Tipton -
Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds†and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.
-- Andre Benjamin -
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.
-- Ariel Winter -
I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.
-- Aziz Ansari -
I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
-- Bella Heathcote -
All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
-- Beth Ditto -
Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.
-- Beverley Mitchell -
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
-- Bjork -
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
-- Bjork -
All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.
-- Bobby Bragan -
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
-- Brian McKnight -
Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.
-- Chamillionaire -
I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.
-- Chris Colfer -
I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.
-- Chris Hardwick -
If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.
-- Chris Hardwick -
The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers of the 21st century because we provide all the brain candy for the mouth-breathers, for lack of a better word.
-- Chris Hardwick -
As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.
-- Chris Hardwick -
As someone who's very nerd-minded, whenever I see a lot of cross-platform stuff when I get bonus material on either side, then it makes me want to dive deeper, sort of like tearing apart the different pieces of the pie.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.
-- Chris Hardwick -
In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
-- Chris Hardwick -
We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.
-- Chris Hardwick -
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
-- Chris Hardwick -
I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
-- Claire Danes -
Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.
-- Claudia Christian -
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
-- Colin Hanks -
I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
-- Craig Newmark -
I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?
-- Craig Newmark -
I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.
-- Cristin Milioti -
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
-- Dan Quayle -
The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.
-- Danielle Panabaker -
My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.
-- David Spade -
Im actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.
-- Dawn Olivieri -
She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.
-- Denise Richards -
Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.
-- Dhani Jones -
Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.
-- Emily Blunt -
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
-- Emma Goldman -
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
-- Erich Fromm -
So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!
-- Fabian -
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
-- Fidel Castro -
There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and writes down the credits. But if you ask him whether it's good, he'll say something sharp. But that's not the point of movies: to love cinema is to love life, to really look at this window on the universe. It's incompatible with note-taking!
-- Henri Langlois -
I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.
-- Hunter Hayes -
I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
-- Illeana Douglas -
Actually, I'm going to nerd out on you, so prepare.
-- J. Lynn -
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.
-- Jacqueline Emerson -
I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.
-- James Cromwell -
I know I have a face like a model. But I’m actually just a goofy drama nerd underneath.
-- James Marsden -
I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'
-- James McAvoy -
I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors.
-- Jared Gilman -
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
-- Jaron Lanier -
You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.
-- Jeff Kinney -
I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again.
-- Jennifer Lawrence -
I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.
-- Joel Courtney -
I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.
-- John Barrowman -
That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.
-- John Burnside -
I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.
-- John Gallagher, Jr. -
Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.
-- John Green -
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
-- Jonathan Krohn -
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.
-- Jordan Peele -
I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.
-- Josh Groban -
I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.
-- Judah Friedlander -
Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.
-- Judd Apatow -
I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.
-- Julia Jones -
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.
-- Junot Diaz -
Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
-- Justin Kirk -
Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
-- Kaley Cuoco -
Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.
-- Kathryn Hahn
