Zadie Smith Quotes

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.

More people smile at me now I'm richer.

Girls that I use to try to talk to, now they want to talk to me.

Dweebs are the new chic.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I wasn't unpopular. I didn't have any trouble getting girls.

I was never going to be very cute. I always looked for the best people to play with and, 'cause, to make myself look better.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

I remember just sitting down one day and going, 'I should have friends.' And then I developed a sense of humour. By the end of high school, I would say I was the most popular girl.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money in a week than you'll make in your entire life.' Which probably wasn't true, but they thought it was.

Education is more valuable than money. Money can be taken away from you. Education cannot be.

Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.