Quotes by Danica McKellar

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

“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.”

“If we as filmmakers do our jobs correctly, the ONLY thing the audiences should notice is the performances. Filmmaking is about capturing the performances given by the actors. Thats what audiences are really interested in, and thats what we need to deliver in order to succeed.”

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and thats going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and its serious. Its serious business.

Find your self-respect now. Dont dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. Its so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

Look at Jessica Simpson. Shes famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasnt that dumb, but thats how she was perceived - and thats what got popular.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, Me? Youve 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.

Students never think it can be the teachers fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldnt do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that its how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them its not for them. Its for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math arent usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. Its structures and patterns, and thats what we love, and thats what we get off on.

I know we cant always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

If anyone tells you its 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.

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 cats meow.

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that its too late by college.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. Wed play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. Hed read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.