Idiot Quotes

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

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.

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

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

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

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I'm a one-man idiot.

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.

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.

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

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

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

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.

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

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

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.

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

I'm an idiot.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

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 know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

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.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

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.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

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.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

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

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

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

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot.

A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete 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 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?

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

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.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.