Idiot Quotations

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 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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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

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?

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.

I don't do a hell of a lot of publicity. I find it nauseous. I feel like a blithering idiot and your friends are laughing at you.

I didn't want to tell her what an idiot I had been ? how I had put her and our family at risk.

Idiot engineering isn't butt kissing. The whole idea is to make working conditions more conducive to your career growth.

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

Mr. Bush and his gang do know what they're doing, and Blair, unless he really is the deluded idiot he often appears to be, also knows what they're doing.

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.

So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

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!'

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!

He is the kind of a man that you could use as a blueprint to build an idiot

My wife knew, but don't mention that because they'll probably put a spell on me and I'll disappear in a cloud of smoke. But you can't keep it from her -- I'm at home yelling out these voices. My wife must be an idiot if she didn't recognize this is book four. But she didn't read it.

My mom wanted to show my dad any idiot could do it.

I was an idiot and took Spanish in high school. In America, maybe (it would help), but not up here. It's not going to help you out.

It doesn't help (that) this idiot Jimmy Carter has just come out for this port deal. I mean . . . Jimmy Carter's just blown this deal sky-high by coming out and endorsing it.

I was pretty much a dork growing up. Going up in front of a crowd and being an idiot was a relief when I was a kid. But talking to two or three people at once and being myself was impossible. And being myself while singing a song was more than impossible; I would've rather died. I get really nervous and tend to want to be an idiot.

We get letters all the time about him wearing his hat backward and how it makes him look like a drug guy and how he really needs to quit being an idiot and wear it the right way. It's incredible.

We were a 12th seed. A 12th seed. Why would I think we're going to be a 3 seed this year? Where's the proof? I'm going to sound like an idiot if I say that.

My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.

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

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

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

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

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.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

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.

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

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