Best Idiot Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I was just an idiot with a guitar trying to play in pubs and clubs.”

“I was a stupid idiot when I was younger. I didn't mature until I was 24, 25.”

“Everyone thought my son had zero value. You would take one look at his school records, and you'd think he was the village idiot. But today he's an NFL star, making millions of dollars a year, and an inspiration to everyone who knows his story.”

“It's just really natural for me to sort of be an idiot.”

“I just like acting like an idiot on camera and having a laugh with my friends. And being able to share that is great.”

“Look, given the opportunity to drive an IndyCar, I'd be an idiot to turn it down.”

“We're never going to write an 'American Idiot' song.”

“I've felt like my whole life, I've had to prove I'm not an idiot.”

“Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.”

“You can't control how you come across and if you try to then you come across looking like an idiot anyway.”

“When I hear about a player losing his money, I'll rarely, if ever, point a finger at the player because I know how difficult it is. It's not always, 'Look at this idiot who got paid all these millions of dollars and lost it all.' It may be more like, 'This naive kid with a million things going on in his life put his faith in the wrong people.'”

“We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'”

“I'm not a complete idiot that just accuses people of something without having my reasons to believe what it is I'm saying.”

“Any opportunity I get, I want to make the most of it, and I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.”

“If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.”

“Anybody that says no to fight Conor is an idiot, simple as that.”

“At the end of the day, I just like acting like an idiot on camera and having a laugh with my friends. And being able to do that and share that is great.”

“I'm an idiot. I'm not an actor. I'm just Lee.”

“Sometimes when you listen to me on the field, or when you listen to me on the morning of the game, you'd think I am an idiot. I can completely empathise with those who might think so.”

“Nahmir is just an idiot. He just glorifies street life. He idolizes it.”

“I've been an idiot at the poker table for a long time.”

“My parents wouldn't let me listen to 'American Idiot.' So it felt very rebellious to go over to my friend's house after school and listen to it in secrecy.”

“I'm kind of a hokey-jokey, campy idiot in black lipstick, but when it comes to my music, I take it very seriously.”

“You love football because of the game, not because of some idiot who is going to shout at your from across the street.”

“I think sometimes people look to players to act out, speak loudly, pretty much be an idiot. But that's not me.”

“I'm the only idiot the that decided to coach in my family.”

“Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.”

“I like being known for being good at maths and having a brain. If I've been asked to do something but it's not relevant to me, I don't do it. I'd feel a bit of an idiot just turning up in a dress.”

“Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.”

“If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.”

“Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.”

“The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.”

“That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.”

“I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.”

“Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.”

“Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.”

“I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I'm not a real moron.”

“If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.”

“They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot.”

“Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.”

“I love being an idiot, and acting lets you be an idiot.”

“You don't want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.”

“I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.”

“I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.”

“Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.”

“I'm an idiot.”

“I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.”

“Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.”

“I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.”

“I think I got stopped on the train once by a kid, and that was the first time I realised I had fans. He was shaking. I just reassured him that I'm an idiot and nothing special, so he didn't have to be nervous. It was very sweet.”

“I thought, 'Nobody wants this book, and I'm an idiot for having worked on it so hard.' But to succeed in writing, you must be willing to look stupid for a long time. 'Pachinko' took so long because I got it wrong so many times.”

“I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.”

“Is being an idiot like being high all the time?”

“Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.”

“So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.”

“I am tired of being portrayed as an idiot.”

“If you feel like an idiot wearing neon yellow shorts, you shouldn't wear them.”

“It's nice to be on the periphery looking in. And to be an idiot. That's all right.”

“I've been moved around my whole life and it's been documented, so if you get paid loads of money to go on TV and act like a right idiot... great stuff!”

“I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.”

“Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.”

“Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.”

“I used to work at Sirius. And when I got my job at Sirius, I was only 21. It was my first job out of college. And when I think back to what 21 was, though, you're an idiot.”

“You treat an idiot like an idiot.”

“Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.”

“I'm not an idiot.”

“Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.”

“I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.”

“I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.”

“I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.”

“Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.”

“The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'”

“Social media has become a high school playground where the challenge is what idiot can come up with the best insult, and do you end up congratulating them for it?”

“Tattoos aren't fun unless you're an idiot. It's not fun to get tattoos.”

“I've definitely sold some Twitter shares. I don't own as many as I used to, because I'm not an idiot, but I own more than I should because I'm an idiot.”

“I was such an idiot until the age of 28.”

“I was very shy and had low self-esteem; the only way to stop yourself getting beaten up was to turn your hand to being an idiot. At the beginning, it was survival, and after that, it became second nature.”

“When I was in New York for 'White's Lies,' I saw 'American Idiot' and 'Hair.' I loved both of those.”

“I'm an idiot.”

“I don't like Don Lemon, I think he was an idiot for what he said about women in their prime. But I don't think that Don Lemon should get fired.”

“If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.”

“I'm an idiot.”

“I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.”

“I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.”

“I'm a parent, and my kids think I'm an idiot.”

“Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.”

“Without insecurities, I think one becomes a little bit of an idiot.”

“The time period I had in my life to look like an idiot and fail, and for no one to see that, came and went when I was 17. When you have early success, people are just lying in wait.”

“As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right.”

“I am a self-destructive idiot.”

“I might be an idiot.”

“The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.”

“When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.”

“There's certain people in wrestling I do not like. Punk is one. Cesaro is another one, the big Swiss idiot in WWE.”

“I learned early on - I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.”

“When I met President Obama, all I could say was 'wow' - twice. What an idiot.”

“Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.”

“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”

“'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.”

“I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.”