Intelligence quotes

“I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating.”
Jim Parsons

“In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.”
David Spade

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne

“I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.”
David Steinberg

“- Hunt Bromley: Looks like everybody's drawing behind your back these days.
- Deputy Charlie Norris: All the smart ones.”
Skip Homeier - Hunt Bromley
Anthony Ross - Deputy Charlie Norris

“When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.”
Tim Allen

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Jordan Peele - UNCF PSA Narrator

“- Marta: You seem very intelligent for an American.
- Fred: Well, I'm not.”
Mira Sorvino - Marta Ferrer
Chris Eigeman - Fred Boynton

“Intelligence doesn't threaten me. Stupidity does.”
Bill Paxton - Elliot Vaughn

“- Beatrice Stanhope: We haven't been friends for very long, George, but I already think I know something about you. You are in love with my daughter.
- George: Oh, Miss Ursula not so dumb.”
Holland Taylor - Beatrice Stanhope
Brendan Fraser - George

“- Ronnie Miller: I was on my way to buy the dress. And I gave the money away.
- Jonah Miller: What?
- Ronnie Miller: Shh. Don't worry about it.
- Jonah Miller: Wow. You may be older. But I'm so much smarter than you.”

Miley Cyrus - Ronnie Miller
Bobby Coleman - Jonah Miller

“- Miles Kitchen: Excuse me! I have an IQ of 160.
- Samantha Swoboda: Oh really? Well I've got a calculator!”
Kenneth A. Brown - Miles Kitchen
Jessica Alba - Samantha Swaboda

“- Ricky: I want a hundred more wishes!
- Harriet: You can't do that, you only have three!
- Ricky: I want to be as smart as everybody else... just for a day.”
Kevin Bacon - Ricky Schroth
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

"Wit" is not a requirement of the job. Brutality, yes. An ability to inflict pain, absolutely. A certain psychotic moral ignorance, blind obedience, all required. But not wit.
Alessandro Gassmann - Gianni Chellini

“You'll never be as fast as Storm, but you can be smarter than him.”

Chris Cooper - Smokey

“Being smart is the only defense I've ever had, but it's not enough anymore.”
Michael Angarano - Cyrus Kinnick

“She do hair, baby sit and sell dope out the same house: police don't know when to kick the door in.”
Mike Epps - Day-Day

“- Olive: Can you not see that I'm a mess?
- Rosemary: No, you're not, Olive. You're wonderful. And you'll handle this the same way I did. With an incontrovertible sense of humor. But you're much smarter than I am, so you'll come out of this much better than I did.
- Olive: Thank you, Mom.”

Emma Stone - Olive
Patricia Clarkson - Rosemary

“- Teresa: Be careful, he's very clever.
- Major Blas Vivar: But his men don't like him.”

Assumpta Serna - Teresa
Simón Andreu - Vivar

“It seems we've finally discovered the secret to your intelligence!”

Brian Oulton - Master Snelgrove

“Sometimes an actor is intelligent enough to overcome his limitations and discover for himself the proper path to follow — that is, he uses his own intelligence . . . When this happens, he has the qualities of a director.”
Michelangelo Antonioni

“Some of the best minds in the country peein' all over the floor in this here facility.”
Octavia Spencer - Zelda Fuller

“- Meyer Lansky: We gotta get tough with Masseria and Faranzano. Only, we can't afford a war. They got armies; we don't.
- Arnold Rothstein: We got balls and brains; you got those, you don't need an army...”
Patrick Dempsey - Meyer Lansky
F. Murray Abraham - Arnold Rothstein

“- Paul Moore: It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.
- Jane Craig: No. It's awful.”
Peter Hackes - Paul Moore
Holly Hunter - Jane Craig

“It's like your I.Q. is suddenly in remission.”

Woody Allen - Gabe Roth