Ben Miller Quotes

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

I loved the college experience of studying.

I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.

I love college. I know I sound like a dork.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

I love college life.

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

I grew up your classic nerd who was not good at throwing balls or kicking them. I was good at reading stories by myself. That was my specialty as a child.

We met in our hometown of St. Albans when I had just left school and Stephen was starting his Ph.D. studies in Cambridge.

I grew up in Miami, which is a very 'cool' city, but I was a science nerd.

In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film.

I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.

I don't consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I'm closer to a dork, if anything, just because I'm not good at stuff. I'm more like a failed non-nerd.

I loved college, I loved Princeton.

When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

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

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.