Quotes by Danica McKellar

About Danica McKellar:

Danica Mae McKellar is an American actor, author, mathematician, and education advocate. She played Kevin Arnold's on-off girlfriend Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years, and later wrote four non-fiction books: Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics.
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Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

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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.

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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

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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 d...

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

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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' a...

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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

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I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precio...

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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.

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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

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Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

Danica McKellar

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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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

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This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.

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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

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

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When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

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Author Bio

  • NameDanica McKellar
  • Descriptionactress, writer
  • BornJanuary 3, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Mathematician; Film Director; Writer