Geoff Dyer Quotes

I am attracted to dumb people.

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.

The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'

I'm a dummy from New Jersey.

I'd like to play a guy who doesn't think so much. I'd like a character whose words come out before he thinks about it. I want a character who is just kind of dumb in that way. A guy who doesn't have too many dangerous, devious ideas. It would be fun to play a role like that.

I am not a troglodyte.

I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

My worst preconception of their appearance and their ignorance did not fall as low as their actual stupidity ... They appear to be nothing more than moving masses of flesh unendowed with anything of intelligence above the brutes

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

I have never really ever gotten to play the girl next door.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

I don't consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I'm closer to a dork, if anything, just because I'm not good at stuff. I'm more like a failed non-nerd.

I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!