Dumb Quotes

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

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

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.

We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.