I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there’s nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There’s a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
I’ve been an idiot at the poker table for a long time.
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.
I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot – in the best possible way.
Thirty guys equals five percent die-off among active wingsuit base jumpers. That means there’s a flaw in our system and you’re an idiot if you think anything else. I’m smart enough to know that five percent means it could be me.
At the interview, they asked me what music I liked and what I thought of Britney Spears. I said she was an idiot. Then they said I’d got the job. I was absolutely terrified.
You love football because of the game, not because of some idiot who is going to shout at your from across the street.
Tattoos aren’t fun unless you’re an idiot. It’s not fun to get tattoos.
I’m an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.
I feel like such an idiot… you know, that our band didn’t break up just so we can re-form and become more and more popular.
Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’ or, for that matter, Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ to find out how destructive it can be.
My first drag role was the character Widow Simone in the ballet ‘La Fille Mal Gardee.’ She’s a crazy social climbing woman trying to marry off her daughter to the wealthy town idiot. And in the middle of the show, she gets to perform a clog dance. I loved it.
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge – this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, ‘Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.’
As for relationships, I know nothing. I’m an idiot; I can’t get it right.
Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, ‘Look at my awesome work.’
I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.
I was very shy and had low self-esteem; the only way to stop yourself getting beaten up was to turn your hand to being an idiot. At the beginning, it was survival, and after that, it became second nature.
I’m 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.
It’s a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you’re pursuing that, you’re an idiot. You’re a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
I’ve been moved around my whole life and it’s been documented, so if you get paid loads of money to go on TV and act like a right idiot… great stuff!
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.
You’re used to having a camera in your face when you’re playing a character – it’s like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you’re so worried you’ll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.
I learned more in the rehearsals for ‘The Letter’ than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn’t make me a better critic, I’m an idiot.
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I’ll look like an idiot because I didn’t say I don’t like it. It’s OK to have an opinion.
I thought, ‘Nobody wants this book, and I’m an idiot for having worked on it so hard.’ But to succeed in writing, you must be willing to look stupid for a long time. ‘Pachinko’ took so long because I got it wrong so many times.
If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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.
The thing is hats don’t really suit me because my head’s too big, so I always just end up looking like an idiot. So I tend not to wear hats.
I’ve certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like ‘American Idiot’ and ‘In the Heights,’ and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just ‘Old Man River.’
You can’t get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.
I’m a sports idiot – watching it, playing it, making conversation about it – I got nothing.
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.
Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He’s the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.
People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you’re great no matter how big an idiot you are.
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
I’m not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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.
If you’re the handsome white guy, you tend to get cast as guys who are meant to be convincing in their jobs. What I’ve been fortunate enough to do, whether it’s playing a certified idiot on ’30 Rock’ or a weirdo in ‘Bridesmaids,’ is play against that in a lot of ways.
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.
You can’t really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There’s a lot of jerking.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who’s an idiot, like myself, they’re fun. You either hate me or you love me.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
I consider myself a fearless idiot.
That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
People are worried about what’s going to happen to journalism – and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, ‘I can’t think of anything to give you, but here’s a new suitcase.’ Afterward, I was like, ‘What were you thinking, idiot?’
Believe it or not, joining a video conference call from home doesn’t always have to make you feel like an idiot.
The ‘Bolton News’ is the best place for online comments. They say I’m an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!
I think sometimes people look to players to act out, speak loudly, pretty much be an idiot. But that’s not me.
I don’t get embarrassed by the same things that other people do. I would say that probably the biggest thing that holds people back is, ‘If I do this, I’m going to look like an idiot if it doesn’t work out.’
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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 never thought America would be stupid enough to put this idiot in the White House. Up until a half hour before they declared Trump the winner, I still thought that it wouldn’t happen. I never thought that we, as a nation, had fallen so much that we would be foolish enough to do that.
