Grant Imahara Quotes

Before 'The OC,' I was on track to do some great films... and one thing happens, and then I got this mega-stardom all from this show.

Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

I went from a sitcom to a hospital drama, feature films. I've kind of been living the actor's dream. I'm not associated with one role or one medium. You're lucky if you're associated with one hit show.

I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

I am, and will always be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have.

The absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they're just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it's an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect.

I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.

All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.

It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance.

Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.

My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

The spirit is the thing I most love about my kind of geekdom.

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.

I'm the queen of the nerds.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status