Top 70 Danica McKellar Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Danica McKellar

Featured in: Math Quotes

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

— Danica McKellar

Featured in: School Quotes

3. “I just love math and most people don’t.”

— Danica McKellar

4. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

5. “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

6. “One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren’t usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It’s structures and patterns, and that’s what we love, and that’s what we get off on.”

— Danica McKellar

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

— Danica McKellar

8. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

9. “There’s nothing unclassy about being naked, if it’s appropriate.”

— Danica McKellar

10. “Let’s make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that’s one of my main messages.”

— Danica McKellar

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

— Danica McKellar

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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 it’s not for them. It’s for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.”

— Danica McKellar

15. “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

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

— Danica McKellar

17. “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

18. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

19. “The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra – they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn’t take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it’s really fun. It kind of wows people. It’s like they’re watching magic happen right before their eyes.”

— Danica McKellar

20. “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!”

— Danica McKellar

21. “I tell students that even if they don’t like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool – a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.”

— Danica McKellar

22. “In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve 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.”

— Danica McKellar

23. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

24. “I’m the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.”

— Danica McKellar

25. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

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

— Danica McKellar

27. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

28. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

29. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

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

— Danica McKellar

31. “If you’re beautiful, you’re led to believe that you can’t also be smart.”

— Danica McKellar

32. “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.’”

— Danica McKellar

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

— Danica McKellar

34. “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

35. “I exercise at home – light cardio and yoga.”

— Danica McKellar

36. “Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an ‘on-the-go’ hair gel.”

— Danica McKellar

37. “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

38. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

39. “I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that’s my main career, it really is.”

— Danica McKellar

40. “When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.”

— Danica McKellar

41. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

42. “Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that’s just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.”

— Danica McKellar

43. “When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.”

— Danica McKellar

44. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

45. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

46. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

47. “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

48. “Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that’s just not true.”

— Danica McKellar

49. “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.”

— Danica McKellar

50. “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