Quotes About Author

I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.

I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd.

I am pretty much a nerd, and I love to read.

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.

In college, I was in the debating society - this total nerd.

Most people would put me firmly in the nerd/geek category. It wouldn't be a change from where I've been put my whole life, but my place now has standing. Nerds are inexorably cool again.

I was a nerdy kid.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

I like math, which sounds really nerdy.

I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to ask her for a date.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

I don't travel very well: people get on my nerves.

I think our first scene was us arguing, and nobody wants to argue with Angela Bassett, but the thing about it was that all of the nerves I had going into it were immediately kind of quelled as soon as I got to the set. Becasue she's not Angela Bassett, she's just Angela Bassett.

A fatwa is not a diktat, it's not binding. To turn the utterance of a non-entity into a fatwa and then talk about it endlessly really gets on my nerves.

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.

I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.

You're always a bit nervous or apprehensive with something like 'Love/Hate' and the level of attention it gets.

I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.