Louis Theroux Quotes

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

A lot of times when you're around really, really smart people, you don't really understand them.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

I don't know one note from another.

From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

I don't know anything about the wine world at all.

No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.

I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

I don't know what an email is.

I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.

When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were a lot of people around me who were really good at physics: I mean, scary good at physics. And they weren't much help to me, because I would say, 'How do you do this?' They'd say, 'Well, the answer's obvious.'

I've never felt like I fit in. I always feel like I'm walking in the wrong direction or swimming upstream.

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?

I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

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

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

I know how it feels to be the newbie.