Idiot Quotations

I drive my wife crazy. I'm hypersensitive, which she will often point out. She'll say something, and I find the way she said it hurtful. And she'll look at me like I'm an idiot and say, 'What are you talking about?' My radar is probably tuned way too sensitively. I wouldn't want to change it because I do think it's an important part of what I do.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

Dressing up, for me, is looking like an idiot.

You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you're so worried you'll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it's not about the W...It's everything about the W with me!

What do you take me for, an idiot?

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

I never invite idiots to my house.

A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Everyone But an Idiot Knows That The Lower Classes Must Be Kept Poor, or They Will Never Be Industrious

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that,

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

Drugs are for idiots. I'm never going to be that person.

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Seventeen-thousand people and they?re going 2-14, and then they bring the idiot in from Tampa, and he?s taken it from 17 to 10.