There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.

If I hadn't been part of '3 Idiots,' I would have felt bloody jealous.

Everybody meets a lot of idiots in their line of work, not just in music.

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.

Most journalists are idiots.

If I hadn't been part of '3 Idiots,' I would have felt bloody jealous.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

I love Lars von Trier. 'Dogville' is my favourite movie of the last 20 years. 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Melancholia' aren't quite as exciting as 'The Kingdom', 'Breaking the Waves', or 'The Idiots', but I'll always love him for being him.

Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.

I spent five years after '3 Idiots' making my next film. I didn't see a single penny in those five years.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

You can't socialise without being faceless idiots. More people have Facebook friends than actual friends these days.

I did a pilot for a show about community support officers, and all the community support officers were pleased that we didn't portray them as idiots.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.