Top 190 Nerd Quotes

I’ve always been such a nerd.

JaVale McGee is one of the smartest guys I know. Like, he’s a nerd, plays with gadgets, and is into technology. He’s funny – he’s got crazy jokes, and his timing with jokes is really funny. You have to be really smart to think the way he does.

I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.

I’m the biggest nerd you know. I’m a nerd, I’m a techie, and I don’t have a problem with saying it.

I’m not a party person. I’m a nerd. I’m not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.

I won’t say if nerd is the right term, but I’m a big, big cricket fanatic. I just cannot stop thinking, talking cricket. I do carry notebooks and make notes to look at improving and developing my own game.

For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really obsessive about it. The problem was I couldn’t really sing. I think one day I sang from a different part of my body, from my gut for the first time, and I was like, ‘Oh! That’s how you’re supposed to do it.’

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I’m a huge comic book nerd.

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.

There’s a roller derby girl that goes by that name, ‘Nerd Rage,’ and she named herself after my album.

I became a real racing nerd – I knew all the drivers and talked about karting all the time. I wanted to have a go, but when I got into a kart the noise scared me. I was also worried that I wouldn’t be able to control the brake with my foot.

I always thought I wasn’t cool enough in school, I was in the ‘nerd’ crew. I actually enjoyed studying.

I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn’t a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone’s westerns.

A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he’s a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

To be honest, the thing is I don’t really like clothes. I mean, it is cool, but I like tech. I am a tech girl. A secret nerd – there, I said it.

I’m such a closeted nerd.

I’m pretty much self-taught – I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I’ll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I’m a nerd like that.

I think we all have different moods – a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.

I’m such a brand nerd.

I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

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.

I am a nerd, but I don’t dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe ‘Star Trek.’

Growing up, I would just sit in my room and watch Detroit news. I was obsessed with Rich Fisher and Amyre Makupson and, of course, Bill Bonds. He was such a character. I just really liked these people. I’m just really a nerd for it.

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.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, ‘There’s the nerd from Harvard.’ Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, ‘He’s the baseball guy.’ So maybe at some point I’ll be known as a football guy too.

I was a huge theater nerd when I was younger, so I was in a bunch of school musicals – Working,’ South Pacific,’ Fiddler on the Roof,’ a very weird little operetta called Charlotte Sweet,’ Nine,’ The Wiz.’

I’m the biggest nerd.

I’m kind of a bit of a space nerd. I like all of that kind of stuff.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I’m a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I’ve gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower… just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I’m doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.

We just have to accept who we are, and I’m a film nerd, for better or worse.

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn’t even make it to that.

My older brother used to punch me all the time because I was a nerd.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

Listen, I am such a nerd. I’m not one of those girls that goes, ‘Ha, ha, hee, hee. I’m a nerd.’ No, no, no – my brain mentality is the same as a 12-year-old little boy. The video games that I play, the things that I like to watch – I’m a Trekkie.

I was a nerd, growing up, I was really into computers and technology, and most of my friends were basically in that world as well.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

When I was a boy, I was called a nerd all the time – because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool – and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never OK when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds.

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.

I did meet Edward Olmos at the ‘Filly Brown’ premiere, but I was such a nerd. I could only muster out a really quiet ‘Hi,’ before I turned bright red all over. I definitely got star struck.

I am a big cinema nerd! I’ve absorbed a lot of films.

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

It’s safe to say I’m a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

I’m a comic nerd. I’m a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

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.

I was a bit of a film nerd as a kid.

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They’re so cool in the way that our characters are cool.

I’m a nerd.

I’m a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning – you never know what you’re gonna get in my shake… fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

When I played in the Australia team the captains were all nerds. Allan Border was a nerd, Mark Taylor was a nerd, Steve Waugh was definitely a nerd and Ricky Ponting too.

Young people need to see that you can be a nerd and still be cool.

I was a super nerd in school.

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.

I’m a black nerd – a blerd!

I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.

I’m just a nerd at heart, and I’m actually quite nice.

Nerd rage to me is kind of just empty rage. I mean, ultimately, you’re not going to do it; you’re not going to fight somebody, you know.

It wasn’t until I moved to New York that I started actually leaving the house and doing things. You know, I was a typical theater nerd.

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

What’s cool about Spider-Man is that it’s everybody – anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you’re Spider-Man. That’s what’s charming about the character. He’s anyone. He’s a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.