Mel Brooks Quotes

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

I never said I was a genius.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

You know, I'm, like, a smart person.

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

I'm not too unintelligent.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

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.

Height has been very, very central to the development of my personality.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

Stupidity is not my strong suit.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

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

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

I’m not, like, that smart.