Reggie Watts Quotes

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

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

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

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I was not the hot, popular girl in school.

I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

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.