Danica McKellar Quotes

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

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

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

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.

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.

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

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.

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.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

I just love math and most people don't.

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!

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

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

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

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

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

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.

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

If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.

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.

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.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

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.

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

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

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.

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.

Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.