Quotes About Intelligence

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

The public are not stupid.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.

An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.

I would never marry a stupid man. Someone who argues, someone who fights, I cannot stand that.

I'm not sure a pretty and stupid man might be the key to a happy relationship.

I'm not a stupid man.

I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.