I was the worst-dressed person in Scranton. I was a total nerd. Obviously, I got picked on, but I was also able to find my own cluster of friends, and I think when that happens, you get by just fine.
Once, after I had just worked out, I hopped on the elevator at the gym only to look up and see Conan O’Brien on it with me. I was so sad. I was all sweaty, but I love him so much, and I couldn’t help but nerd out on him.
I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd… but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
I’m an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I’m kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.
In college, I was in the debating society – this total nerd.
I’m a film nerd.
One thing I’ve realized is that being a nerd has transformed. I like that it’s easier to read comic books and, like, ‘Lord of the Rings’ now. You don’t have to get punched in the chest in the gym locker room for that anymore.
A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.
The drama nerd comes out in me when I’m in a theater.
I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
I’ve always been a square, a nerd. Kind of odd, kind of awkward. I still am to this day. People just think I’m a lot cooler ’cause I play football.
Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it’s really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That’s way down the list, my friend.
Mostly, nothing’s really changed. I’m still the dorky nerd that I always was.
Because I am the biggest musical theater nerd, I worship Sondheim.
It’s just that I’ve always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
Look at the Prius. It’s a nerd car. Yeah, you’re being environmentally friendly, but your dating life is gonna suck.
I’m just a total nerd, in all honesty. I’m a massive, insane record fan – that’s how I got into playing music. That’s why I wanted to make an album – I’m obsessed with how sides flow.
I’m a movie nerd, and when I’m really looking forward to something coming out, the less I know, the better.
I’m basically a professional nerd, and I’m still not cool. I’m around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I’m not them. But that’s OK; I don’t care.
I can’t say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.
I always felt out of place. I wasn’t a cool kid, but I wasn’t a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.
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.
I’m definitely not a nerd, not a nerd at all.
Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It’s actually cool to be a nerd.
I consider myself a nerd. I love science and technology.
I was not a cool kid. There was no reason for me to be marginalised. I was just a nerd. I was kind of weird, and I found solace in video games.
I’m a total nerd. I love fantasy.
I’m a super theater nerd.
I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1’s ‘Behind The Music.’ That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.
Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.
I’m a keen traveller, and I’m a nerd with planes and airports.
I’m a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!
I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I’m a big sci fi nerd.
I still feel like a nerd.
I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.
I think I’m one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself – and other people seemed to think of me – as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
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.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn’t have girlfriends, and really I wasn’t a very social boy.
When you’re a nerd, you know there’s a million types of neurotic self-loathing.
For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn’t seem like the right thing, because you didn’t fit in. You didn’t want to be too smart because you’d be a nerd. But then you didn’t want to be too dumb either because then you didn’t get the grades you needed to play.
She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she’ll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood interventions, and she will gush about obscure details of a home visitation experiment in Elmira, N.Y., that dramatically improved child outcomes.
I love continuity. I was a continuity nerd growing up. I loved buying a comic in the middle of something and loved digging for back issues or going forward and trying to figure it all out.
I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.
Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.
There’s a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.
There’s always a side of me that goes, ‘I’m just a nerd.’ I never look at myself and say, ‘I’m beautiful.’ Like anyone else, I see the flaws. Guys don’t do that as much as women. But you have to learn to appreciate and accept and love yourself as you are.
It wasn’t cool that I didn’t comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool be a nerd and tomboy, and these days, it really is. And I’m like, ‘You guys have no idea what I went through.’ How many times my mother yelled at me to comb my hair.
My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.
I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.
To be honest, I’m not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.
I’m a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.
I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses – I embrace my inner nerd.
I was a bookish nerd.
In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn’t categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there’s too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
I was a total nerd growing up. I’d rather sit home and read a novel on New Year’s Eve and say, ‘Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!’ That was my idea of a big time.
I am just a history nerd.
I like policy – call me a nerd.
‘Losing My Edge’ was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster’s defence against ‘the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.’
I’m a history nerd. Actually acting’s the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff.
I’m actually a really big board game and video game nerd.
I had a really hard time in Orange County. I was a nerd. I was watching foreign cinema when I was 13 and talking about how ‘Hope and Glory’ should be a foreign film.
I was never really a nerd. I’m not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I’m a big movie and music buff. And I’m into sports.
As an actor, it’s more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It’s a lot more fun – you don’t worry about ‘what’s my hair like?’ in the morning or ‘which is my great angle?’
I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don’t think I will ever be anything other than that.
I call myself a nerd all the time.
I was a very studious student and usually got A’s. I did not like school, because I wasn’t popular – I was a nerd.
