Chris Hardwick Quotes

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.

I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

…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’.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. “I think I’m more Batman,” he said. “You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler.” “Geek.” His smile widened. “You say the nicest things. Haven’t you heard? Geeks run the world now.” -BLACK DAWN

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

Actually, I'm going to nerd out on you, so prepare.

I'm the queen of the nerds.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.