Jenna Fischer Quotes

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.

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

I was such a geek in school.

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.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

I was a nerdy student.

When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.

I was kind of a loner growing up.

When I was a kid, I was really quiet.

When I was growing up, I was focused on football and school.

In school, I was the weird kid, I guess.

Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques.

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself. Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible. It wasn't like some idea of going to Hollywood; it was in my backyard. I lived two blocks from Grauman's Chinese Theatre growing up. It was what people did. It's an industry town. So it wasn't some far-off fantasy, it was like "Oh yeah, when you grow up, you do this because that's what people do here."

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.