Top 310 Dumb Quotes

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it’s just going to sound dumb.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I’m able to do what I want without anybody thinking it’s dumb.

I wrote ‘The Room’, ‘The Birthday Party’, and ‘The Dumb Waiter’ in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

I’ll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

Some of what I get, I deserve; I do some dumb stuff sometimes. But I do not deserve the perception that I have.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience’s attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Ever since my grade school days, as I mastered the art of ‘faking sick’ and I stumbled across ‘The View,’ I’ve been confusedly asking myself the same question… How do these dumb broads remain gainfully employed?

Many hotels, I just sat there and – I call it the silent scream – I don’t know why, you just sit there, and tears will just come down, and you’ll just sit there for hours, man. There’s no place to turn, and when you do turn, who cares? You’re just a dumb professional wrestler.

Well, he can’t be dumb, I mean, because he’s been president for four years and he’s president again, so you’re going to get caught out if you’re really bad, aren’t you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.

I’m not dumb enough to call up a bad player.

The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn’t go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

I think names and suits are funny. Normal names in insane situations and dumb suits are funny.

If I could push a button and get rid of all these dumb people flying Nazi flags and have them never show up – They are a big problem for the Right.

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It’s impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, ‘This is just dumb.’

You have to get the audience invested even if you’re doing something that they think is dumb, it’s kind of what these movies are all about.

TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, ‘Oh, that’s my dumb friend’, or, ‘That’s my funny friend.’ A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there’s nothing either character won’t do. That someone really, really has their back.

Guns are going to be here until the end of time; the underworld is going to be here until the end of time. It’s just a sad reality that dumb people use them.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, ‘Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!’

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I can’t do the terrible mistake of thinking audiences are dumb and will accept anything I do. I want to be cautious about my choices.

It’s killing for fun or profit I can’t stand. There’s a difference between an Eskimo killing a seal for survival and some dumb broad strolling down Fifth Avenue in a leopard coat.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation – that’s what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.

Mexico scares me. There’s no law, there’s wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.

Only dumb people are happy.

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that’s weird or unexpected and time to think. There’s all sorts of things happening and it’s great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.

I think if you’re watching ‘Dumb and Dumber,’ I don’t know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you’re watching ‘Event Horizon,’ ‘Death Race,’ ‘Alien vs. Predator’ I mean, I think these movies are definitely enhanced by the Blu-ray experience.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

In midlife, we’re as dumb as we get.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.

I’m a smart guy, I like to think of myself as a smart guy, but sometimes I go out there and do a lot of dumb stuff.

Toughness isn’t that you’ve got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That’s not tough. That’s dumb.

Yeah, I would love to play someone really dumb, just really foolish.

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

I’m lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.

Especially when you’re queer and you’re a person of color, you’re so used to being the token on set. Inevitably you have to answer dumb questions from someone. You’re the ‘other.’

I always loved jokes. It’s such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it’s true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

People can underestimate you when you’re blonde and from Essex, but it’s easy to shut that down. I used to get dumb blonde jokes when I was 18, but when I replied that I was studying maths at Oxford, it usually shut them up.

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn’t funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, ‘What did he say?’

I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don’t want to do anything generic or dumb.

As a comedian, I’m always quoting ‘Caddyshack’ and ‘Dumb and Dumber.’

I don’t put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I’m dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I’m mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

It’s actually smarter to make a dumb film.

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.