Marlon James 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.

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

Everybody always thinks I'm a lesbian because I'm a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

I was such a geek in school.

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

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.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.

I grew up hearing, 'You're pretty for a black girl,' 'You speak well for a black girl...' I was really bookish. I was reading all of the time. I had big glasses.

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

I was a bookish nerd.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

I'm a nerd.

I was a nerdy student.