Quotes About Perception

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

The public's not stupid.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

I felt like people who had a lost mindset or who occasionally did stupid things were having a 'donkey' moment, or some of them are permanent donkeys, so I just started calling them donkeys. So when I went to Philly to do my own morning show, that's when I first started doing 'Donkey of the Day.'

It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

It might sound so stupid, but guys do not hit on me. I'm not really sure why, but it's very rare that a guy will ever come up to me and be like, 'I'm going to lay down my game right now, and you're going to like it.'

For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.

People are just so stupid.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.