Patrick Ewing Quotes

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

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

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

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

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.