Smart Quotes

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

A smart model is a good model.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

I do believe all actors are smart.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.