Danica McKellar Quotes - Page 2

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• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  Danica McKellar

  Actresses, Delight, Stereotype

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• I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

  Danica McKellar

  Book, Teaching, Writing

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• I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

  Danica McKellar

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Home, School

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• I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Party, Beer

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• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  Danica McKellar

  Believe, School, Self

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• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  Danica McKellar

  Coffee, Math, College

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Fun, Mistake

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• There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

  Danica McKellar

  Speech, Disability, Complicated

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• There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

  Danica McKellar

  Workout, Math, Brain

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• When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

  Danica McKellar

  Views, Hands, Acting

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• I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Cat, Math

  "Danica McKellar's Mathematical Theorem". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 11, 2006.

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• I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.

  Danica McKellar

  Mean, Hands, Guy

  "Danica McKellar, ‘Wonder Years’ Winnie, Strips For Maxim". Maxim Magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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• If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.

  Danica McKellar

  Smart, Math, Kissing

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• Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, Math, Empowering

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• Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.

  Danica McKellar

  Children, Kids, Eye

  "Danica McKellar Faces Backlash Over Maxim Spread, Has Advice For Miley Cyrus" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2010.

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• I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  Danica McKellar

  First Love, Math, Careers

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• I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

  Danica McKellar

  Acting, Done, Littles

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• I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

  Danica McKellar

  Yoga, Home, Exercise

  "Danica McKellar Reveals Her REAL Secret To Post-Baby Weight Loss". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 02, 2011.

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• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  Danica McKellar

  Dumb, Looks, Fame

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  Danica McKellar

  Names, Guy, Done

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• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  Danica McKellar

  White, Healthy, Sugar

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• I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

  Danica McKellar

  Coconuts, Shells, Drink

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• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  Danica McKellar

  Respect, Regret, Self

  "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.

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• The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

  Danica McKellar

  Pain, Divorce, Sound

  "Danica McKellar Compares Divorce to a Death in the Family" by Marla Lehner, people.com. June 8, 2012.

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