I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I’m from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. – Meryl Streep
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. – Jaimie Alexander
I’ve made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that. – Joel Silver
It was weird – writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I’m a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I’m a female pop celebrity who’s pregnant. It’s a completely mad way to spend your time. – Mal Peet
I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot. – Jemima Kirke
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I’m trying to be now, I’m trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. – Kevin Mitnick
I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game. – LeBron James
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.’ – Jose Ferreira
There’s no such thing as ‘hard sell’ and ‘soft sell.’ There’s only ‘smart sell’ and ‘stupid sell.’ – Leo Burnett
People say, ‘You will be 30 years old; you’re too old. You’ll get your nose broke,’ say dad’s a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind. – Katie Taylor
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. – Kara Lindsay
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. – Mencius
Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. – Khaled Hosseini
I hate that thing that if you are over 45, and you’re going to be on telly or make films, you have to do all this stupid stuff to your face. I would no more let someone stick a needle in my forehead than fly to the moon. – Lesley Manville
My motto is, if you love something, don’t set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid. – Lydia Millet
Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I’d play Nintendo 64 with them after we’d rehearse this stupid play that I wrote. – John Francis Daley
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. – Kenneth Branagh
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. – Joaquin Andujar
Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things. – John Caudwell
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that ‘brainy’ people can be. – Michael Leunig
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments. – Jess Weixler
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. – Kunal Nayyar
Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are. – Larry Kramer
