Quotes About Acceptance

Young people need to see that you can be a nerd and still be cool.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

When I was a boy, I was called a nerd all the time - because I didn't like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool - and it hurt a lot. Because it's never OK when a person makes fun of you for something you didn't choose. You know, we don't choose to be nerds.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

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 wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of karate jokes at me. I wish that I was at school now that MMA and martial arts is cool, but back when I was in school, people associated it with nerdy stuff.

With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself.

There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness.

I am proud that in the Netherlands I can come out for my homosexuality, and I'd like to keep it that way.

When I think about people coming out, especially young people, my first concern is, 'Are you safe? Is this a safe time? Are you in a safe place?' Do you have a network of people outside of your parents you can go to if this doesn't go as well as you hoped?

I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

We've always been more gender neutral than any other sport.

I can never complain about the situation that I'm in. I try to put everything into perspective.

I never complain: 'Oh, I have to go to the hospital and get platelets.' No. It's just something you have to do, so why complain about it?

I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.

I never expect anything. The more good things that happen the better, but I never expect anything.

I will never forget what it was like coming out and having nobody to look up toward.

I've been around long enough to know that you never say never.