Top 55 Jerk Quotes

I don’t want to be known as a jerk forever.

I think every interaction I have, there’s something I walk away going, Oh my God, I sound like a jerk. It’s constantly happening.

For every 10 good things, there’s always some jerk that wants to say something bad.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren’t. Maybe if you’re a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that’s fine. But that’s not me. And it never will be.

It’s almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it’s so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It’s fun. It makes it really fun.

I have a big ego, and I’m a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn’t work for me, I tried it… for about ten years.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I’m trying to straighten up the image where they don’t want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I’m trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I’m still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I’ll be even worse to the guys.

My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything – and I will – but I’ve been very fortunate to take everything and learn from it.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can’t now.

Salary negotiations are particularly important because people are testing you as both a co-worker and an ambassador. They really don’t want you to be a pushover, and they don’t want you to be a jerk.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I’ve always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

I have this dreadful image of me driving down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the windows rolled down, and our song comes on… and I’m sitting there listening to it and some guy pulls up next to me and thinks, ‘Hey, it’s that guy from the Goo Goo Dolls… he’s listening to his own music. What a jerk!’

I really like the movie ‘The Jerk’ with Steve Martin.

We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn’t believe it. ‘You fat pig. How can you do this? You’re a disgusting jerk.’ And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.

I’m well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that’s fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That’s all I care about.

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They’re so grounded.

People come from all over the world to sample Jamaican jerk.

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making – I don’t like knee jerk decisions – but I’m not afraid to make decisions.

I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that’s the way I was, and I was stupid.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he’s in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

There’s always a high school jerk, isn’t there? But I didn’t date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls’ private school for ten years.

When you come to Jamaica, there’s a handful of things you simply have to try that’s right on the top of the list, and I think jerk chicken definitely has to be number one.

Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.

A lot of guys are starting to get away from trying to jerk these heavy weights and throw all these heavy weights around.

I knew I wasn’t going to be any great shakes as an actor – the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.

When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real person. However, as a bad guy, I get to be the opposite. I get to be a jerk. I get to talk trash, I get to say all the things that I’m thinking but have to restrain myself from saying out of respect or decency.

A person with grace is somebody who’s socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

When I’m writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there’s a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.

I loved ‘The Jerk.’ That was my favorite movie.

Only a jerk would talk politics on Mother’s Day.

I’ve lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.

Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don’t be a jerk. Be a good guy.

I remember my brother was always a jerk to me. One time, he bought Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Smash Hits,’ and he gave it to me because he didn’t like it, thinking it was a punishment.

People who drive slow in the left lane on the highway! Are you kidding me? Don’t you see everybody passing you, honking and flipping you off? It’s not because everyone else is crazy, it’s because you’re driving slow in the fast lane, you jerk! OMG! It makes me crazy!

If I’d had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

It took two months from the day my fiance proposed to my first Google search for ‘wedding planning: how?’ Now, let me interrupt myself here and share how much I hate using the word ‘fiance.’ It’s so fancy, and it’s hard not to sound like a jerk saying it. Which is why I will be using my own word for fiance: gloob.

Hemingway was a jerk.

I never liked talking about myself or my background because I hated bringing back bad memories. And sometimes when I talked, it would come out the wrong way, and I’d look like a jerk. That’s why I became an enigma to people.

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

Every show needs a jerk. I guess I’m that guy.

I’d always rather be a jerk than a loser.

What’s the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

I know that I’m definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I’m being a diva. It’s kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it’s a person I do not want to be. So I’m trying my best not to become a jerk.

There is no upside to making a disparaging remark about a colleague. If your remark is accurate, everybody already knows it, so there’s no need to point it out. If your remark is inaccurate, you’re the one who ends up looking like a jerk.

I’d never be a jerk with my teammates because I know I need them to be successful.