Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

Being a nerd is not about what you love; it's about the way you love it.

Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

I like passionate fandom.

I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.

Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I'm obsessive. If it's 'Star Wars,' if it's 'Transformers,' if it's the Flyers, I geek out.

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather to see, touch, watch, hear, read, wear, or simply enjoy proximity to the object of their devotion.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.