Quotes About Perception

I'm one of those people who can watch a stupid movie and end up crying.

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

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

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.

Full-face helmets look stupid.

Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.

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'm not a stupid man.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

I was always playing very stupid people, or the fat mate of the main girl.

I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they should just wear signs. And, man, it just took off.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.