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Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

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• 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?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books

• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Family
  • Book
  • Moments

• Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Star
  • Speak

• Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• 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.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Bad
  • Red
  • Ugly

• 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Children
  • Age
  • Books

• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Nerd

• First time directors - they may not make good movies all the time but they are always the best directors to work for because they’re always so excited, always so committed to what they’re trying to do.

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • Nerd

• I'm actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Together
  • Nerd

• If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People
  • Mistake

• 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.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Nerd

• 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.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • School
  • High
  • Girlfriend

• 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.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Nerd

• I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Remember
  • Comedy
  • Laughter

• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Habit
  • Luck
  • Opportunities

• I got a dog. I take him on hikes, and I go to yoga all the time and drink green juice - very cliche actress.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Green

• Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

  

  Cheryl Strayed
  • She
  • Advice

• Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Nerd