If you don’t give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he’ll make plenty when he gets to college.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don’t think I’m like that. And I’m not stupid!
I learned that you don’t take dishes from the table to the dishwasher; you have to rinse them first. I think that’s stupid because I don’t go out in the back yard and hose off before taking a shower.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.
There’s no such thing as ‘hard sell’ and ‘soft sell.’ There’s only ‘smart sell’ and ‘stupid sell.’
‘Shall We Dance?’ takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it’s a good big, stupid American movie.
Just like in rugby, the pinnacle was playing for the All Blacks. That was always a massive thing. But you never speak it outwardly because it can sound stupid. But if you don’t have massive dreams, you might as well stay in bed.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
‘You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
Hollywood usually doesn’t have strong woman in films like that, and it’s stupid, so for the most part they’re usually being directed and written by men.
I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I’d let them watch something like ‘Full House’ that I think would make them stupid.
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you’ll end up saying you hate them just because you’re so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
If this TV success had come in my twenties and I’d become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn’t.
Actors who say they don’t watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it’s how I research for auditions.
Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you’re stupid if you don’t listen to it because you never know what you may find.
I don’t care what people think. People are stupid.
When I first started out, being from the South and going to New York or Chicago, people kept telling me to get voice lessons and ‘lose that stupid accent you got.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, where I come from, you have the stupid accent.’
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
I’m amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.
No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – fix it!
Back when I was growing up, it was like, ‘You’re too young to know what you want. We’re telling you what you want. It doesn’t matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.’
It’s all part of my journey – I’ve done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
If I’m in love I want to get married. That’s how stupid I am.
I’ve got Asperger’s syndrome and I’m not a very good people person, so I’ve always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way – I don’t want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
People aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our ‘civic duty’ to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven more just for safety, which was stupid. I should have just worked on therapy.
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Some people, I think, think that because I don’t take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it’s stupid. I don’t at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don’t take it seriously.
More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they’re either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
There’s nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that’s 50 percent stupid.
We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon’s corrupt use of our tax dollars.
I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
People want a result. Immigrant voters aren’t stupid, and they’re going to know who’s on their side.
I’m very intelligent. I’m capable of doing everything put to me. I’ve launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I’m living proof blondes are not stupid.
The market is often stupid, but you can’t focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.
‘Hansel and Gretel’ is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing these stupid comedies, and I felt lost.
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.
I’m not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That’s stupid.
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
I’ve made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.
You have to be quite stupid to act.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
Ever since the economic crisis in 2008, millions of people have accepted cuts in all sorts of things – from real wages and living standards to benefits and hospital care – without any real opposition. The cuts may be right, or they may be stupid – but the astonishing thing is how no-one really challenges them.
I don’t want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.
I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.
I think since I’m not particularly well-known as myself, it’s funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone’s only seen me in ‘Death Proof,’ they think I’m sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I’m not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I’m wasting my time.
Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense – until you start getting recognized and making money. Then you’re a genius.
I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It’s just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way – and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we’re really good at politically any more.
One wants to think that – and this is really a stupid thought – that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else’s lives and thoughts or whatever.
I don’t think you can rely on Iran. I don’t think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you’re really stupid.
Beauty fades, stupid is forever.
I do stupid stuff like that: I’ll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
You really can’t explain how you do the things you do. I can’t, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don’t want to say something stupid.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
It’s funny, I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you’d realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don’t matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn’t matter.
