Gugu Mbatha-Raw Quotes

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

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

I was an awkward kid.

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

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

I don't get hit on enough.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

I was such a geek in school.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

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 want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

When I was a kid, I didn't have any girlfriends. I was a very nerdy-type dude. Believe me, being a ham does not turn girls on.

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

When I was in high school, we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.