Ben Mezrich Quotes

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.

I always pick characters where it's not his muscles or dance skills that help him, because not all of us can look like that. I am more like someone who'd beat up ten guys, not with his muscles, but his strategy.

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

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

MacGyver of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time, because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation. There's something about the adventurer aspect of that show that I loved, that he went on all these great missions and saved people without having to use guns or anything like that. And I think that show might even be coming back, too.

'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her