Top 105 Nerdy Quotes

I’m from the street, but I’m not a street head. I’m not one of those guys who believe that life is about the street. I’m nerdy at heart, man.

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.

I played a nerdy guy on ‘CSI: NY’ for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.

I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don’t know if that’s nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that’s kind of cool, actually.

I was a nerdy kid.

My nerdy pursuits are more like video games, Dungeons and Dragons, stuff like that.

My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington… yes, I am that nerdy.

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He’s basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is – namely, a problem.

Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You can always go deeper with science, and you can always ask a new and interesting question. That’s what makes a topic nerdy: depth.

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

You’re not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It’s nerdy.

I wasn’t the typical pageant girl – I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning – and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn’t brush my hair.

I’m not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

Technology is a nerdy field. That’s why I called myself a ‘geek.’ It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.

The horror fan base is fantastic. It really has devoted fans, and I like that aspect of the genre. The people who are making it are always really wonderfully nerdy, creative people, which I always love.

I wasn’t really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don’t care – and that was me. I wasn’t really picked on or anything like that.

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.

I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.

I didn’t know what a boy was until I was about 18. I wasn’t in the cool group at all. We weren’t cool, but we weren’t nerdy enough to be picked on. So we were just in our own little bubble.

I’m really nerdy, and I read a lot.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.

I was a nerdy student.

I tended to be the nerdy kid – stood at the back, watching other people having fun – I wasn’t always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

Leadership is loud. It is quiet. It is thoughtful and emotional and cerebral and nerdy and goofy and joyful and motivating.

You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.

Raised on Bill Nye videos, LEGOs, and CD-ROMs of dinosaurs, I was a lump of nerdy clay waiting to be molded. ‘Mythbusters’ came to me at a critical time, and it transformed me into who I am today.

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

For women, even if she’s nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she’s undateable.

I would say I am unapologetically nerdy. I was always a little awkward.

Comic books aren’t nerdy. You’d have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

She was a Bond girl; she couldn’t have been in nerdy.

Throughout my career, especially the second half of my career, I was always nerdy or anal when it came to how I prepared for my matches.

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

I collect… for a long time, I collected Nike Air Max 90s, this specific shoe. And it really is nerdy, because collecting sneakers is not that nerdy, but if you don’t wear them, and you keep the box fresh, if you’re that fanatical about it, then you leap several categories into super-dork, and that’s the way I was.

But everyone comes to Hollywood hoping to get a role people are going to remember them for, and I get girls saying I was their first crush, or Asian guys saying Rufio was the first time they saw an Asian kid on-screen that wasn’t nerdy or stereotypical, so I was lucky the character that resonated was cool.

Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.

I got a message that Quentin Tarantino would like to meet me, that he was a Spider-Man fan and wanted to talk about playing Peter Parker. We had a general chat, a nerdy conversation about Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

It’s superficial that people think I’m cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they’re always surprised by how nerdy I am.

Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they’re spiritual and telling stories like ‘Whale Rider’ and ‘Once Were Warriors,’ quite serious stuff, but we’re pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am.

I am a business owner. I’m a teacher. I think Justin’s actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I’m like this… Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn’t be.

Basically, I didn’t know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.

It couldn’t have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.

When I was growing up, I think I was expected to be seen and not heard. You’re this little, nerdy kid; no one wants to hear about how sad you are. Nobody wants to hear that you feel lonely.

I’ve grown up with a piano in the house, and that’s where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that’s when I started getting nerdy about it.

I think teen girls will like ‘Geek Charming’ because they really focus on the ‘populars’ and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.

I’m a nerdy, geeky fan of’ Labyrinth’ and ‘Dark Crystal’.

When it comes down to it, I’m kind of a nerdy actor.

I like math, which sounds really nerdy.

I think I’m like that nerdy dad from middle school who always has a video camera, but in the same respect, I only take it out during interesting occasions.

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

A lot of people believe women can’t do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn’t have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.

I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play ‘astronaut’ and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.