Intelligence quotes

“- Violet: We're not that different, Corky.
- Corky: This is the part where you tell me what matters is on the inside, and that inside of you there's a little dyke just like me.”
Jennifer Tilly - Violet
Gina Gershon - Corky

“Bob could no sooner have killed himself than I could pull a chicken out of my ear. But these nefarious types, they don't get that. You know, they don't understand that. Affairs of the heart. Way beyond them.”
John Benjamin Hickey - Captain Goodson

“You're going to be infamous, boy, take my word for it. And do you know what such a scandal can do? It never goes away. Not for you, not for your parents. And besides, lying to judges and reporters isn't as easy as you think. You'd have to be brilliant. Can you do that? I know I can.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Kurt Dussander

“- Casey Schuler: How many brain cells did I kill?
- Sam Daniels: How many? About a billion.
- Casey Schuler: Oh, now I'm only as smart as you.
- Sam Daniels: What can we give him to kill his sense of humor?”
Kevin Spacey - Casey Schuler
Dustin Hoffman - Sam Daniels

“- Anthony Powell: I'll have to ask you to pay attention to the Director.
- Terry Randall: What am I supposed to do? Walk around like a puppet or use my intelligence?
- Anthony Powell: You've to do what you're told!”
Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“- Evelyn: Alexander the Great sent troops in search of it.
- Rick: Great for him.
- Evelyn: So did Caesar.
- Rick: Yeah, look what happened to his career.
- Evelyn: And Napoleon.
- Rick: Yeah, but we're smarter than him. And taller, too.
- Evelyn: Exactly. That's why we're the ones who are gonna find it.
- Rick: Because we're taller?”

Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan
Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell

“My brother, your father, he and I. Opposites. But I never doubted his love. He would do anything for me. But his temper. Clouded his judgement. I don't want to see the same thing happen to you.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“My grandfather was as smart as they come... when he was awake.”
Charlie Talbert - Angus Bethune

“- Mercenary #2: He's the best there is.
- Travis Dane: I thought you were the best there is, Penn.”

Patrick Kilpatrick - Mercenary #2
Eric Bogosian - Travis Dane

“You're a very intelligent girl. You have a lot of admirable qualities. But one day maybe you'll learn that being smart and doing whatever you need to do to get ahead, and stepping on other people to get there... well, there's a whole lot more to life than that. And in the end you're only cheating yourself.”

Matthew Broderick - Jim McAllister

“- Verne: So you outsmarted me, huh?
- Julie: That's what happens, they tell me, when smart people get together. One of them winds up ahead.”
Clark Gable - Verne
Joan Crawford - Julie

“Don't let the little head do the thinking for the big head.”
Gerrit Graham - Jeff

“I don't think an adult of your intelligence should be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.”

Joseph Attanasio - Congressman Derounian

“If you're so smart, tell me something, how come you go to M.I.T. for 8 years to become a cable repairman?”
Judd Hirsch - Julius Levinson

“Herr Frankenstein is a most brilliant young man, yet so erratic he troubles me.”
Edward Van Sloan - Doctor Waldman

“- Keith Nelson: You can't tell a book by its cover.
- Watts: No, but you can tell how much it's gonna cost you.
- Keith Nelson: Wow, I never knew you were so deep.”
Eric Stoltz - Keith Nelson
Mary Stuart Masterson - Watts

“Men don't get smarter as they get older. They just lose their hair.”
Claudette Colbert - Gerry Jeffers

“- Laforgue: We have come to help you! We have been sent by our God, who is the God of us all!
- Montagnais: He can't speak properly.
- Chomina: They have their own tongue. It is like birds singing.
- Montagnais: Are they intelligent?
- Ougebmat: No.”

Lothaire Bluteau - Laforgue
Marco Bacon - Montagnais
August Schellenberg - Chomina
Billy Two Rivers - Ougebmat

“- Jimmy Tong: You are very smart. Good speller.
- Cheryl: Thanks, I graduated top two-thirds of my sixth grade class.”
Jackie Chan - Jimmy Tong
Mia Cottet - Cheryl

“Remember, hands and feet we don't need in our business.”
Elizabeth McGovern - Moira

“Brilliant man, Sherlock Holmes. Too bad he was honest.”
Lionel Atwill - Professor Moriarty

“- Michael Corleone: I feel... I'm getting wiser now.
- Kay Adams Michelson: The sicker you get, the wiser you get, huh?
- Michael Corleone: When I'm dead, I'm gonna be really smart.”
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams Michelson

“In my day I was considered quite a catch. I don't think I ever met a man I felt could outsmart me, out-think me. How those silly creatures did bore me. Oh, it does cause quite a fuss, that combination: smart and beautiful.”
Celeste Holm - Ida, Fletcher's Grand Mother

“You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it so much I'd like to present it pickled in alcohol to the London Medical Society.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“That boy's so smart he'd dry snow and sell it as sugar.”
Eugene Pallette - "Honey" Wiggin