Danica McKellar Quotes

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

Beautiful, Smart, Led

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.
Danica McKellar

Problem, Easy, Makes

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

Famous, She, Actually

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

May, Students, Number

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.
Danica McKellar

Music, Time, Good

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.
Danica McKellar

Life, Great, Smart

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
Danica McKellar

Time, Long, Else

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
Danica McKellar

Down, Whole, Found

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar

Love, Career, Acting

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.
Danica McKellar

Nothing, Passion, Acting

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

Change, Dreams, College

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' and others. You just never know, do you?
Danica McKellar

End, Others, Acting

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

Confidence, Guys, Sexiest

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

Hand, Guys, Number

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.
Danica McKellar

Change, Able, College

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
Danica McKellar

Home, Light, Exercise

I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
Danica McKellar

Blessed, Easy, Pregnancy

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 it's too late by college.
Danica McKellar

Education, Women, Done

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
Danica McKellar

Women, Parents, Old

I just love math and most people don't.
Danica McKellar

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. Wish me luck.
Danica McKellar

Hope, Medical, May

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

School, Through, Learned

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

Love, Time, Book

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.
Danica McKellar

Age, Hard, Learned

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
Danica McKellar

Women, Friendly, Person

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Nationality: American

Born: January 3, 1975

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