I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
~By Aaron Allston ~
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
~By Orson Welles ~
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
~By Thomas Brooks ~
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
~By Mark Twain ~
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
~By Eugene McCarthy ~
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.
~By Paris Hilton ~
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
~By Rudolf Nureyev ~
I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
~By Jim Fowler ~
Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.
~By Tim Hudson ~
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
~By George S. Patton ~
I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.
~By John Entwistle ~
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
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.
~By Brian Setzer ~
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
~By Eminem ~
So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
~By David Krumholtz ~
We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
~By Aaron McGruder ~
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
~By Sonny Liston ~
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
~By Dolly Parton ~
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
~By Courtney Love ~
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
~By Loretta Young ~
Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.
~By Warren Cuccurullo ~
There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
~By Tim Robbins ~
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
~By Lynda Barry ~
I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
~By Esai Morales ~
I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
~By Sophia Loren ~
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
~By Bill Watterson ~
Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
~By Pat Brown ~
We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.
~By Alia Shawkat ~
When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
~By Warren Beatty ~
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
~By Mario Puzo ~
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
~By Maya Lin ~
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
~By Jessica Simpson ~
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
~By Charlie Bell ~
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
~By Leon Spinks ~
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.
~By Curt Weldon ~
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
~By Orson Welles ~
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
~By Muddy Waters ~
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
~By Arnold Rothstein ~
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
~By Scott Adams ~
I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
Only dumb people are happy.
~By Courtney Love ~
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
~By Mark Strand ~
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.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
You're dumber than you think I think you are.
~By Robert Towne ~
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
~By Leo Rosten ~
Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
~By Karl Rove ~
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?
~By Andrew Greeley ~
None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
~By Daniel Johns ~
I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.
~By David Zucker ~
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
~By George Lindsey ~
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
~By Frank Butler ~
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
~By Fran Drescher ~
To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.
~By John Hewson ~
I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.
~By Beth Daniel ~
They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
~By David Allan Coe ~
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
~By Bobby Knight ~
Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
~By Bruce Paltrow ~
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.
~By Courtney Love ~
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
~By George Colman ~
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.
~By Halle Berry ~
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Too clever is dumb.
~By Ogden Nash ~
I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.
~By Joss Whedon ~
I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
~By Harry Shearer ~
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
~By Dan Simmons ~
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
~By Ann Coulter ~
I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
~By Louise Brooks ~
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
~By Jack Black ~
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
~By Antoine Fuqua ~
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
~By Shawn Colvin ~
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
~By Solomon Short ~
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~By Graham Greene ~
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~
However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
~By Bruce McCulloch ~
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
~By Umberto Eco ~
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