One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he’s socially inept – because everybody’s been there – but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
I was crying because I was making my Broadway debut and there’s nothing like that. It’s the absolute mountaintop for a nerd like me that’s loved it forever.
If there was any show I could guest star on, I would want to guest star on ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ because I am such a nerd and I love that show. If there was ever an opportunity to be on that, I would snatch it up.
Don’t know if I’m a nerd – I’m more of a geek.
I’m a book nerd, and I’ve seen authors that I love, I’ve gone and seen them speak or read from a book.
I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.
In the ’90s, you couldn’t say the word ‘nerd’ to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn’t have listened.
I don’t watch sports through the eyes of a stats nerd or an anger monger. I truly love stories and characters and the flash and the sexiness of it all.
I don’t like to say ‘dork’ and ‘nerd’ and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.
I’m definitely not a nerd.
Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love ’em. I’m a movie fan. I’m a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I’m not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.
I’m outing myself as a huge comic book nerd.
I’m a huge reader… I’m a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
I didn’t come from the West Coast experience, I came from Dallas and I was an introvert and a nerd.
Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
I was going to be a chemical engineer – I was a science nerd – that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.
My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.
I’m also a huge nerd and love magic, especially ‘Harry Potter.’
I’m a huge comedy nerd. I have been forever.
I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.
Someone who I would describe as a ‘geek’ or ‘nerd’ is a person who loves something to its greatest extent and then looks for other people who love it the same way so they can celebrate loving it together.
I’m just a big old nerd. I’m not that cool guy at all.
Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed ‘nerds,’ seek elsewhere. Dropping the H bomb may brand you as an intellectual or a Kennedy. But it will not give you much nerd cred. And that’s a good thing.
Oh, I’m a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
I wasn’t the class nerd, but I was weird. I could tell long stories and be funny, but I couldn’t do sports. And I was always terrified of being held back.
Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
I’m the biggest nerd – I love comic books and stuff like that! I don’t have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn’t very good at sports.
Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music – I only listen to Broadway!
I grew up in a hippy town, so I did my playing outdoors and skiing and all that, but then I also had my nerd friends that I went and hosted LAN parties with, get my ‘Counter-Strike’ on.
This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.
I was a nerd growing up, and I’m a little antisocial and awkward.
I love ‘Harry Potter.’ I’m a huge nerd – I would dress up if I could.
If I didn’t play baseball, I probably wouldn’t play a sport because i’m not really that athletic. Baseball was the one sport I could nerd my way to the top.
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’m a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.
I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.
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?’
I don’t consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I’m closer to a dork, if anything, just because I’m not good at stuff. I’m more like a failed non-nerd.
I speak from a nerd’s perspective because I’ve been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Star Blazers’ and ‘Battle of the Planets,’ and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It’s OK to say I’m a nerd. That’s me.
I’ve never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken’s head off in a sideshow.
No longer is a geek identifiable by a pale complexion, black-rimmed glasses, a bowling shirt that says ‘Nerd World Order.’ No, geeks are everywhere. And they’re cool!
A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
I’m a luddite in comparison with some of the people I follow on Twitter, but a nerd in comparison with many people. But I was always a nerd in other terms – always a big Dungeons & Dragons fan, stuff like that.
There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie – hence the ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ franchise – but not for hopefully years on the air. It’s a sight gag, not a story.
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 have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven’t done the cool movies that they like. With ’24,’ I gained a lot of respect. ’24’ is now, it’s hip, it’s their generation.
This idea of the geek or the nerd, all that person really is – and I would consider myself one – is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.
I go to comic shops because I like to just listen to nerds arguing about nerd stuff to relax.
My high-school years were so mediocre – I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a video nerd.
I used to work in a record store. I’m kind of a record nerd.
