Troian Bellisario Quotes

I was a good student. I was lame. I was into school and didn't really go out much, so I guess I wasn't the coolest person on the planet.

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'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

I loved being a student more than being in school. I was kind of the nerd type; I was more into my career and my studies than the dances and being popular.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

I was a bookish nerd.

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

I was a nerdy student.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

I am a beau in nothing but my books.

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

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I was never going to be a scholar.

All I did was go to school and play golf. I didn't have much of a social life.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

I don't want my kids to be on the streets period. I want my kids to be nerds. I want them to be book smart or playing sports - I don't want them to know nothing about the streets.

I used to be on some nerd-type stuff.

I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.

When I was at school, I loved maths and read lots of books and was horrified at the idea of having a boyfriend... I was probably a nerd, but then, it was a negative term.