Stupid Quotations | Page 5

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I'm usually buying my books in at least two formats.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid

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

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

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.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is 'Iron Chef.' Not the stupid American version; 'Iron Chef' Japanese; the real one, the one that was on in Japan... my DVR for years was set to record almost every single 'Iron Chef' episode.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am.

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.