Rob Lowe Quotes

I was a slightly geeky kid.

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

I was a nerdy kid.

I was a bookish nerd.

I was a nerdy student.

I was such a geek in school.

I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.

I had been, to the age of 25, a bookworm.

I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to have just stayed in the car with my German and French vocab books. It's embarrassing to admit to it now.

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.

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

I was a super nerd in school.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

I definitely identify as a nerd - love being in a classroom.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

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.