Top 530 Stupid Quotes

One of the reasons why my album is called ‘Forget the World’ is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It’s stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, ‘Another romantic comedy?’ You see her in something like ‘Walk the Line’ and think, ‘God, you’re so great!’ And then you think, ‘Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?’ But of course, it’s for money and status.

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years – ‘I am buying these records, I am wearing this’. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

If I was crazy, I’d throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that’s crazy. If I was stupid, I’d throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that’s stupid.

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they’re just really good at playing stupid, but I don’t think so.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn’t be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.

You’ve got to be stupid to heckle me – I am very equipped to win.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that’s what I want.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it’s just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it’s so straightforward and simple. If the audience don’t laugh, you didn’t do your job. I’ve had some audiences where I didn’t care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

I think stupid people are surprised that I’m Australian. It’s a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don’t really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don’t deserve it, at all, for what we do.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

We’re self obsessed and mad and stupid – not that other people can’t be the same way – but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

I can’t do with mountains at close quarters – they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

People tend to think that I know less about what I’m talking about than I actually do – usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

Just for fun, I’m really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I’m talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

I paint stupid things; that’s what I do. I can’t think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn’t matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn’t matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I’m much the same.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don’t learn by your mistakes – at least I don’t – so best to blunder on making fresh ones.

What I worry about and don’t like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that’s very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God’s sake, says that you can’t have one law for everybody… that’s stupid.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That’s an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I’m not Brad Pitt.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.

I had a romantic, ‘Aren’t I a good girl?’ take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

It’s stupid to have a simple-minded view.

My thing was play as hard as you can, don’t be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you’re not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

I never consciously said, ‘I want to be an actor.’ It sounds stupid, but it’s kind of like being a painter or something. You don’t say, ‘From today on I’m going to be a painter.’ It’s not something conscious – you’ve just been painting pictures all your life.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits – I wasn’t. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you’re stupid. You don’t think, ‘If this kid’s not a good fit, it could be the system’s fault.’

People are always going to say stupid things, and you’re always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it’s the easiest thing.

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I’ve done something that I knew was wrong.

If we have a great idea, we’ll go, ‘Oh, this could be a cool movie.’ Or really for us, it’s more like, ‘Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let’s do this. This seems really stupid.’

I never rode a bull – I’m not that stupid.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it’s easy.

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they’ve always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they’re all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one’s friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

I don’t know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

You don’t get old being stupid.