Nerd Quotes - Page 6

• I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Laughter, Confused, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.

  Giovani Bernard

  Football, Real, Team

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

  Paul G

  Thinking, Reason

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• I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

  Aisha Tyler

  Thinking, Icons, Knows

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• Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". Interview with Lev Grossman, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

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• The nerds have taken over the newsrooms.

  Phillip Knightley

  Taken

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• Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

  Moby

  Lunch, Clubs, Littles

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• I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Damn, Damn Good

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• In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

  Alan Kay

  Our Society, Slides, Used

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• People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

  Lena Headey

  Thinking, People, Wicked

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Lena Headey On Games Worse Than 'Game Of Thrones'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 6, 2016.

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• No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Revenge, Computer, Mess

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• I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Art, Team

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a need for expertise, for real expertise. I'm not doing much to help that cause, but I think we can find the healthy balance between intellectualism and anti-intellectualism. Jocks and nerds may come together, I believe it.

  John Hodgman

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sweet, Real, School

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho

  John Hawkes

  People, Austin, Roles

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• I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

  Charlyne Yi

  Glasses, Want Something, Tugging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  School, Glasses, Few Friends

  "Michael Angarano and Danielle Panabaker Talk Sky High". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. August 2, 2005.

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• Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

  Adam Baldwin

  Acting, Band, Geek

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.

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• To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.

  James Purefoy

  Stars, War, Men

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Real, Kids, Weekend

  The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

  Scott Thompson

  Fantasy

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• I was a normal American nerd.

  Jack Herer

  Normal

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• When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Epidemics, Aids Epidemic, People

  "Live From" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2005.

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• Only the nerds will save the earth.

  John Hodgman

  Earth

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff.

  Jude Law

  Book, Kids, Son

  "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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