Intelligence quotes

“- 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

“- 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

“All I know about the CIA is that they're a bunch of fat, old white guys who fell asleep when we needed them most.”
James Douglas Clayton - James Douglas Clayton

“- Mattress Guy 1: So how smart is she?
- Mattress Guy 2: I don't know. I guess she's about average.
- Mattress Guy 1: Average? Average is dumb!”

Nick Baxter - Mattress Guy #1
Allen Branstein - Mattress Guy #2

“In my other schools, I was the freaky math girl. It's cool coming here and being... whoever I wanna be.”
Vanessa Hudgens - Gabriella Montez

You know, when Adlai Stevenson was running for president A woman came into him on a rally one night and said, "Every thinking person will be voting for you." Stevenson said "Ma'am, that's not enough. I need a majority."
Billy Bob Thornton - Pat Candy

“- Levasseur: With your brain and my strength, there is nothing we cannot do.
- Peter Blood: But there's very little I can't do all by myself.”

Basil Rathbone - Levasseur
Errol Flynn - Peter Blood

“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”
Charles Bronson

“Bombs won't stop terrorism, brains will, and we don't have nearly enough of those. I'm gonna give you a shot, Snowden.”
Rhys Ifans - Corbin O'Brian

“- Lorraine Broughton: You went to the KGB to take me out. You were too fucking scared to do it yourself.
- David Percival: Too smart, more like.”
Charlize Theron - Lorraine Broughton
James McAvoy - David Percival

“- Will Hunting: I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedals, and a box of wood. Beethoven, Mozart, they saw it, they could just play. I couldn't paint you a picture, I probably can't hit the ball out of Fenway, and I can't play the piano.
- Skylar: But you can do my o-chem paper in under an hour.
- Will Hunting: Right. Well, I mean...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Damon - Will Hunting
Minnie Driver - Skylar

“You know, with all that makeup and stuff, I actually thought you were smart for a second.”
Daryl Mitchell - Tommy Webber