As fun as it is to be the nerdy best friend. I’m capable of more than that, and I feel that I have emotions to share, and there are roles I can add something to. I just hope there are other people who are willing to take that chance on me and let me tell their stories.
My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding… That’s the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn’t as much into the comic book stuff. So it’s fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me.
I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO. I’m a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.
I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn’t always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.
Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I’ve been labeled – short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy – turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn’t become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.
I was nerdy and awkward and didn’t know how to talk to people – except online.
I had multiple circles of friends around the world. Some circles were really wild and I was affectionately known by them as ‘the nerdy one.’ And, with other friends, I was regarded as the wild one.
When I play ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ I’m such a nerdy little law abider because I’ve always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.
Girls love it when you have some weird nerdy thing in your room. It makes you look less threatening, even though I’m, like, very threatening. I’m the most threatening guy ever.
I hang out with the ‘nerdy’ people – they have a different sense of humor than most kids.
I’m more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps.
There’s something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards… We’re dorks being silly up there.
Parents don’t want their kids to be nerdy.
I don’t have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool – and have good taste, obviously.
I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I’d end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.
I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.
I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.
I’m a fun person. I like cracking jokes and being completely nerdy.
I’m sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it’s not for them. It’s for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
How do we escape who we are? I think, going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn’t known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.
I was such a tomboy – goofy and, in my eyes, nerdy – and I never thought I would end up in modeling. I mean, you see pictures of these girls in magazines who have this incredible talent, and no one ever really thinks you can make it to that level. At least I didn’t!
I’ve always played some version of a nerdy guy or something like that. I mean, one of my story lines on ‘Silicon Valley’ is that I am very bad with women!
When you’re 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you’re going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like ‘Parenthood.’ I didn’t feel the need to change anything I was doing – I embraced it.
Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.
It’s an absurd world – you know, billionaires in Birkenstocks. But I’d rather have nerdy tech guys as the next Carnegie than oil tycoons.
Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n’ roll, but I like it. It’s fun, and it’s better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.
I started modelling in college, but it was part time since I was kind of nerdy and wanted to finish my studies.
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I’ll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don’t write back.
I look most like myself… when I’m wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
I feel like I’m a really artsy person. I love to tie-dye shirts and bake and just do nerdy and fun stuff.
I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school – skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.
I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.
I play a lot of nerdy voices.
I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn’t want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I’m embarrassed. I’m like, ‘Ugh, why did you care what people thought?’
Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.
I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.
We hung out with a group of nerdy friends playing games.
It’s okay to take that reservoir of passion that you have and let it flow into whatever you love. Experiment, question, replicate, be critical, be nerdy, be yourself.
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