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Idiot Quotes

I’m not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

– Lindsay Pearce

You don’t want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.

– Kevin Connolly

Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.

– Kevin Bacon

When you’ve been on a programme called ‘An Idiot Abroad’ job offers aren’t exactly flying in.

– Karl Pilkington

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can’t do that much longer.

– Joan Van Ark

Making the ‘An Idiot Abroad’ series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I’d hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill – just like everyone says.

– Karl Pilkington

I’ve had great success being a total idiot.

– Jerry Lewis

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

– Mark Twain

I’m not ashamed to look like a total idiot.

– Lucy Punch

There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

– Richard Dawkins

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.

– Robbie Williams

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they’re talking about.

– Ruth Reichl

There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

– Scott Adams

I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn’t tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn’t keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

– Rachel Hunter

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

– Rashida Jones

Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don’t often notice that they’re thugs, usually because they’re also idiots.

– Robert Webb

You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

– Stanley Kubrick

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.

– Steve Martin

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

– William Blake

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

– Steven Wright

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

– Sid Caesar

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.

– Simon Hoggart

To generalize is to be an idiot.

– William Blake

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can’t get it out.

– Teri Garr

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, ‘Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?’ Then they drove away saying, ‘What an idiot!’ Thirty-five years later, they’re saying, ‘The sucker’s a genius!’

– Si Robertson

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It’s a quick way to look like an idiot.

– Warren Ellis

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

– Sally Kellerman

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

– Will Ferrell

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

– Susan Faludi

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

– Yair Lapid

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