Idiot Quotes

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

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?

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

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.

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

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.

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

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

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.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

I'm a one-man idiot.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

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

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

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

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.