Quotes About Intelligence

It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

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

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

I am not that smart.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

I know my fan base is a smart group of people.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.