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?
In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.
I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.
You can never have enough nerds, freaks, and weirdos. You know what I'm sayin'?
I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
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 comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.
I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.
I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.
Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.
If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears. ' That's a nerd.
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff. ’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.