Natalie Portman Quotes

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Brainy's the new sexy.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

If we're going to compete in this century, we have to compete on the basis of how smart we are.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

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

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.