Intelligence quotes

“I'm so extremely intelligent that it's actually harmed my career as an actor. Actors are supposed to be cattle.”
James Woods

“It's a little disconcerting to realize that the smartest member of our expedition's the dog.”
Barbara Hershey - Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

“Our children are more capable of retaining and absorbing information than we are and yet we insist on treating them like adorable little morons.”
Rick Moranis - Nathan

“You know what the biggest difference between you and a rich man is? He has money and you don't! And if you were smart, you would ask yourself why!”

Howard Hesseman - Ed Tuttle

“- Charlane McGregor: Why don't you get a job at the Burgerrama? They'll hire you! My Lord, I saw on the TV, they had this little retarded boy working the register.
- Lelaina Pierce: Because I'm not retarded, Mom. I was the valedictorian of my University!
- Wes McGregor: Well you don't have to put that on your application.”
Swoosie Kurtz - Charlane McGregor
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Harry O'Reilly - Wes McGregor

“First rule of magic: always be the smartest person in the room.”
Jesse Eisenberg - J. Daniel Atlas

“I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”
Garson Kanin

“Hey Doc... anybody ever tell you that you're a pretty good lookin' doll? I don't go for dolls as a rule. They're just something nice to have around the house like cats and dogs and pets and things. You got brains.”

Humphrey Bogart - Joe Gurney

“- Primrose Everdeen: Just try to win. Maybe you can.
- Katniss Everdeen: Of course. Maybe I can. I am smart, you know.
- Primrose Everdeen: And you can hunt.
- Katniss Everdeen: Exactly.”
Willow Shields - Primrose Everdeen
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen

“- James Moreland: I mean, it's not as if he has never shown signs of normal intelligence.
- Catherine Boyd: Think of that! Nuclear fusion.
- James Moreland: I suppose these things happen. Idiot-savant, you know. A mental patient plays perfect chess. A nine year old from Alabama suddenly starts speaking in iambic pentameter...”

Stephen Fry - James Moreland
Meg Ryan - Catherine Boyd

“- Michael: Maybe he's not that smart. Maybe he's like a worker bee who only knows how to push buttons or something.
- Elliott: He is too smart.
- Michael: Okay, I just hope we don't wake up on Mars or something surrounded by millions of little squashy guys.”

Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“My mother says before I was born I was the same as everybody else, better even. My mom says I'm from a place where I'm the smartest person there. Everybody sings.”
Kevin Bacon - Ricky Schroth

“You think I'm a hero? I am not a hero. And if you're smart, that scares you. Because I have nothing to lose.”
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“- Vitruvius: I'm not hearing a whole lot of activity in here.
- Lucy: I don't think he's ever had an original thought in his life.”

Morgan Freeman - Vitruvius
Elizabeth Banks - Lucy

“- Jim: Say something smart.
- Donna: Existence precedes essence.
- Jim: God, you're sexy.”
Luke Kirby - Jim
Daisy McCrackin - Donna

Look, just so you know, I'm not a total nerd. I also happen to be "super-into close-up magic".
Ben Platt - Benji

“You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. ”
Mel Brooks

“I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.”
Matthew Davis

“To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor

“- Charlie Carbone: Look at her. She thinks she's so much smarter than us.
- Louis Booker: I'm pretty sure she is, Charlie.”

Jerry O'Connell - Charlie Carbone
Anthony Anderson - Louis Booker

“An intelligence agency that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“- Bozz: My friend here wants to go for the experience, Sergent. Says he ain't scared.
- Sergeant Cota: Good luck, Private. You ask me, I'll stick with the smart and the scared.”
Colin Farrell - Pvt. Roland Bozz
Cole Hauser - Staff Sgt. Cota

“No brain, no pain... think about it.”
Clancy Brown - Gus Gilbert

“- Cooper: You're ruling my son out for college now? The kid's fifteen.
- School Principal: Tom's score simply isn't high enough.
- Cooper: What's your waistline? 32? With, what, a 33 inseam?
- School Principal: I'm not sure I see what you're getting at.
- Cooper: You're telling me it takes two numbers to measure your own ass but only one to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper
David Oyelowo - School Principal

“You realize, Dr. Angelo, that my intelligence has surpassed yours.”
Jeff Fahey - Jobe Smith