A lot of people ask what it takes to move from being a creative to a leader: Take everyone’s career personally. People will work hard for you if you work hard for them. Any idiot can be a boss; all you need is a title. But to be a leader, you need to earn respect and have an opinion you stand by.
In school, I wasn’t like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.
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.
What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who’s good-looking; if they open their mouths and they’re an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.
For those that don’t know much about ‘American Idiot’ or Green Day, just know that it’s my generation’s The Who’s ‘Tommy’ or Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall.’ It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience.
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot – my wit was according to my years.
Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.
Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you’re an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.
It’s an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I’m just an idiot talking – I’m not insisting that I’m any smarter than anyone else. It’s satire.
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
‘American Idiot’ was the hardest show that I’ve ever done – ever.
Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
I’m not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.
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.
Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don’t pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can’t do that. I’m in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
I think it’s funny because on ‘Glee Project,’ there’s that added pressure, but with ‘Glee,’ there’s no element of competition. No one’s trying to dance better than anyone. But there’s that added pressure of, ‘So many people are going to watch ‘Glee’ this week. If I don’t nail this dance, I look like an idiot.’
I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.
Because I’m a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I’m an idiot, I’m weak.
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 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’d make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I’m a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.
I think we need more idiot control.
Sometimes when you listen to me on the field, or when you listen to me on the morning of the game, you’d think I am an idiot. I can completely empathise with those who might think so.
The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they’re an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It’s tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can’t do that.
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.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Trump is the white evangelicals’ version of V.I. Lenin’s ‘useful idiot,’ a character who is helping achieve their apocalyptic fever dreams, but who will perish along with the rest of us as the faithful perch in the clouds.
‘American Idiot’ is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it’s become an anthem of a generation.
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.
I am a self-destructive idiot.
I’m not a bling-bling guy; I can’t pull it off. I just look like an idiot.
I cannot pull off a mustache. It’s like threading a needle, because most of the time, I’ll look like a complete idiot.
The truth is that I’m an idiot. I am. I don’t do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn’t say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.
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.
The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I’m just a bratty, gobby idiot.
I just said, casually, ‘You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.’ And my friend was like, ‘You idiot, you have to do it!’ She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, ‘Ha ha, very funny.’
There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.
I just didn’t want people to think, Here’s this idiot Danish actor who made up this name to get attention. It’s really quite common here, and I’ve had it all my life.
I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I’m just an idiot.
I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.
Boxing’s a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
We’ve got this cultural mentality that you’ve got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it’s a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it’s a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, ‘Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,’ and not have to say, ‘Well, you decide.’ Then it would be like I’m an idiot.
For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.
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.
We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun – and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.
I’m always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I’m always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I’m collaborating with.
There’s a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it’s kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it’s great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
I am not an idiot, and I’m not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
Do I feel confident about my health? I don’t think that anybody ever should feel confident about their health if they are 72 years old, and getting ready to go in to the ring. If they are then they are probably some kind of an idiot and that is more than likely what I am.
Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin… You’re always preaching to the choir one way or the other.
Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
