Danica McKellar Quotes

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

  Danica McKellar

  Guy   Pampering   Stuff  

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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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• Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.

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  Sexy   Years   Would Be  

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• I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

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  Girl   Math   College  

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• 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. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

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  Memories   Dad   Father  

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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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• Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's 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.

  Danica McKellar

  Smart   Mean   Math  

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

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• Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

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  Teacher   Stupid   Home  

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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.

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  Book   Teaching   Writing  

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

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  Change   Dream   Couple  

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• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

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  Girl   Mistake   Mean  

  "Person of the Week: Danica McKellar". abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2007.

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• If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

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  Simple   Names   Guy  

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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.

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  Names   Guy   Done  

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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.

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  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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• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

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  Birthday   Brother   Age  

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• I just love math and most people don't.

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  Math   People   Math Love  

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

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  May   Medical   Surprise  

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

  Danica McKellar

  Challenges   Kind   Persons  

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

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• People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

  Danica McKellar

  Years   People   Merit  

  "'Wonder Years' star's sexy spread; J.Lo finally gets a ring; Kathy Hilton defends Paris and Nicky". The Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. June 08, 2005.

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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.

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  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 am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

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  Numbers   Hands   Guy  

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• Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

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  Black And White   Confusing   Lines  

  "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

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• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

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  Fun   Powerful   Giving Up  

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• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  Danica McKellar

  Girl   Fashion   Teaching  

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

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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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• My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

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  Baby   Children   Husband  

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• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

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  Beautiful   Fun   Smart  

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• There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

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  Girl   School   Thinking  

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• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

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  Children   Health   Parent  

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• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

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  School   Years   Lucky  

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