Quotes About Intelligence

I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.

I like a clever guy, a real gent.

I have my opinions but to go into politics you have to be very clever, which I'm not!

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

I love collaborating with other really smart, incredible people.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic.

You have to have the common sense.

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

We've lost common sense.

That's the intelligence of football: to see when to be compact, when to counter-attack, or, if you see that you're in the opposite half, you try and win the ball.

I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.

If we're going to compete in this century, we have to compete on the basis of how smart we are.

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.